No…we didn’t experience one (I don’t think…). Miracle in Milan is a film by Vittoria de Sica – you have probably heard of The Bicycle Thief – one of the most famous expressions of Italian post-war Neo-Realism. About a month before our trip, a Twitter acquaintance wrote about seeing it. He graciously offered to send [...]
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Miracle in Milan
Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Memoir-ish
Posted in Current Reads on March 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
That’s the word I used on FB to describe my mental search for ithe third book in the trilogy I’d been meaning to blog about. I hadn’t read it too long ago. I thought it would fit into a blog post with the other two. I could remember that it was not a memoir like [...]
Oh – we’re back
Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Been back since Tuesday night. Then real life took over again – school/karate/Stations/speaking/Mass/etc. I have a speaking engagement tomorrow at a local parish so that’s where my mind is this evening. So just a picture so this will qualify as an actual blog post: The first is as I took it (badly)- the second is [...]
A Boy and His Gelato
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Lake Maggiore waterfront, Stresa. Gorgeous. Gorgeous. It was between this and Lake Como for today. In studying up on both, it seemed to me that there would be more to entertain my traveling companions in Stresa. I had big plans for the day – I wanted to do the Parc (previous post) and the funivia [...]
Madam, take care!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The potential culprits: Nothing about the donkeys or llamas, though: Parco della Villa Pallavicino.
Buona Domenica
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Chiesa SS. Redentore – 10 AM Mass. Packed. Every seat filled, side walls and back wall three people deep. It was obviously the children/young people’s Mass, for many of them were seated in the first rows together without parents. Young people provided the music – folk/pop – but there wasn’t much of it because there [...]
You will be assimilated
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2011 | Comments Off
Train station, Stresa.
Un Piccolo Dramma
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We visited the Natural History Museum this morning. I’m normally not that interested in stuffed wild animals and even less interested in photographing them, but this one pulled me in by way of high drama. Perhaps my memories of the Field Museum, the Natural History Museum in New York City and others is faulty, but [...]
Pavia
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2011 | Comments Off
Strada Nuova, Pavia Took a thirty-minute train ride to Pavia this afternoon. It was marvelous. A bustling, walkable, compact little city, a university town (the University of Pavia being one of the oldest in Europe – currently celebrating its 650th anniversary). A market featuring chocolates, other candies and baked goods. St. Augustine and Boethius. Quite [...]
Your Father Knows
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
It was certainly grand being atop the Duomo today. We showed up there about 11:30 and found the line to climb the stairs up to the top quite long. Too long for us at that moment, certainly, so we decided to do something else and see if the line might be shorter in a couple [...]
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