Goodbye Love
21 Mar 2012
We will always miss you.
Women and Wine and other Wonder Women
08 Mar 2012
March 8 is International Women’s Day: here is my little present to all my girlfriends!
Buona fine e miglior principio!
31 Dec 2011
That is how my grandfather used to wish us Happy New Year. It means “have a good end of the year and an even better beginning of the new year”. We hope 2012 brings our way many new interesting people and, hopefully, some old friends too!
Some blogging laziness!
29 Nov 2011
I am guilty of blogging laziness these days. It might be because I haven’t been out of the house much lately. I am less than 10 days away from my due date (Dec. 7), and I am essentially sitting on the sofa waiting around for this baby to show up…
Tuscan Comfort Food
09 Nov 2011
While trying to write this post for the monthly Italy Blogging Roundtable I have realized that all food is comfort food to me, but there are different things that I crave at different times of the year. And then there is Nutella… which is a year-round soul-healing food… and a very old-fashioned Tuscan “snack”…
I almost forgot about pumpkins, Halloween and the holidays!
31 Oct 2011
Being on maternity leave, busy with an important job interview and putting together a wish list of items for our baby, and practically still wearing short sleeves on this year’s warm fall days, I almost forgot that Halloween, All Saint’s Day and the olive harvest were here! Until my grandma made Pane dei Santi…
A rich calendar of events for the fall in Pisa
06 Oct 2011
I have just received a newsletter sent by the tourist council of Pisa and another one by the Mayor’s office and I am amazed at the amount and quality of the events organized in Pisa this fall.
“Pane e coperto”: service charges in Italian restaurants
26 Sep 2011
“Pane e coperto” literally means “bread and tableware” but it is essentially a service charge that restaurants add to the bill for each guest. It is one of the most controversial issues in travel forums. I say it’s part of the Italian way of life, and we have to learn to live with it.
Back to school! Or maybe not…
14 Sep 2011
One of those bittersweet moments when you have both reasons to be sad and reasons to be happy, and the September issue of our Italy Blogging Roundtable!
The blackberry season
06 Sep 2011
… and memories of the end of summer.
