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Sarah suggested we go to Portofino, and first insisted we watch the movie Luca. She wanted to go to Portofino to see where the (animated) film was located. So we decided to get out in the country and explore the Italian Riviera. But First Esther wanted a little photo shoot
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Today I was showing the girls around Genoa. It is so beautiful they were duly impressed. Sarah passed a bag store and wanted this beautiful bag, it cost 200 euros. (I was actually relieved when she said a designer bag I was braced for 1,000s--not that she would have
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Day 7 evening: the family arrived My daughters arrived with Minne at 8:00. I had a huge feast of the different types of focaccia bread, vegetable tarts, etc. that I had bought at the market. It was feast everyone enjoyed! Especially because everyone was so tired from their journey.
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I decided I would do the shopping for flowers myself. What a lark! What a plunge! Today I have to get a nice dinner ready for Minne and the girls when they arrive at 7 or 8 pm tonight. They think it is late but it is actually standard dinner
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(Note to Linda Watanabe McFerrin: yes that is a series comma in the title!) First a note about the weather. * Rome: the highs were in the 90’s with sweltering humidity (70+%) * Castel Gandolfo: the highs were in the low 80’s or high 70’s but with 70% humidity
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This is the last day before my daughters and Minne join me on this adventure. I have been warned Sarah tried to get out of coming here altogether and seems to have some private grudge with me. She’s pinned all on a sentence from an email I sent her.
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Genoa is incredible! But it was not off to a good start. I arrived in Genoa Piazza Principe station. I took two metro stops to the new AirBNB but there was no up escalator only two escalators going down. I did not want to go up those steep steps with
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I woke up at 5 am this morning, after restless sleep. The Italian Victory last night did little to disturb my sleep though. After they won the game, fireworks went off and then there was a boisterous march through the village which passed quickly by my house. Afraid the train
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Days 3 & 4: I Castelli Romani I left Rome very early on day 3 to escape the heat. It was already creep[ing upwards to 80 degrees and I could not bear the thought of dragging two heavy bags and my back up down and up and back down
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Roma, 9 lujlio 2021 The morning started with the colosseum, a special tour that would take us to the floor of the colosseum. I walked from the house to the colosseum and it was a wonderful pleasant walk and saw many familiar landmarks and sundry roman ruins along the way.
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Roma, 8 lujlio 2021 It is nothing short of miracle I am here to write this entry today, more on that later. 24 hours ago I was in San Francisco. For 240 hours I was obsessing about the ever changing requirements to enter Italy as an American citizen. Proof of
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Hello Everyone, I am planning a trip to Italy as the first part in a series of voyages that will help me determine where I would like to live when I retire. My first trip is departing Wednesday 7 July 2021. The COVID crisis is either over or at a
