Books for the Venetophile (Venice-lover)
Besides your typical tour books of this wonderful city, delightful books abound to help you discover another side of Venice, Italy. Another Venice by Jacopo Fasolo features more than 50 […]
It Rains on Wednesdays…
Except this week! All four Wednesdays we’ve had the pleasure to be in Venice, it has rained in the afternoon and evening. We’ve even taken to joking that if it is raining, it must be Wednesday. That was all flipped around this week though when it went beyond pouring and […]
A Love Affair with Gelato
Don’t get me wrong, I’m already a big ice cream fan. Ben and Jerry are two of my best friends, and I’ll happily share my my favorite ice cream shop (or frozen yogurt or gelato) in every city in which I’ve lived. But NOTHING compares to Italian gelato in Italy. […]
A New Jewish Year
We spent last Rosh Hashana at the Cancer Treatment Center. It was actually a surprisingly nice Rosh Hashana, all things considered… Right before Mama Jude’s radiation treatment, we had an […]
A Very Different Kind of Trip
I’m living in Venice, Italy this month. I have the fortune of living here for a month — in a city most tourists seem to think they can “see” in a day or two! You’d think having been here a week already, I would have seen and done everything Venice […]
Adventures in Becoming a Temporary Venetian
We arrived safely in Venice, Italy just past midday Wednesday and have been settling in as temporary residents, rather than tourists. Though we’ve been here more days than it seems many tourists spend in Venice, I’m sure we’ve seen fewer sights. The travel and the humid heat has been taking […]
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