Showing posts with label Caffe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caffe. Show all posts
Saturday, July 04, 2026

Re-discovering New Haven for CNN Travel

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I got to visit New Haven on the company dime and I enjoyed every minute of it. Now you can, too -- here's my story . It's part of a ...
Friday, May 08, 2026

The Four Seasons Hotel in Florence

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The boy whose Fiorentina soccer team shirt reads 'Nato Perfetto' ("born perfect") gets around.  This is a photo of Leo , a...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Tiny moments of exquisite beauty in Italy

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The apartment in Florence where we stayed this month during our trip to Italy had a top-floor terrace that stares directly at the Torre di ...
Monday, December 30, 2024

All I Want for Christmas is Guglielmo Coffee

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Even at my advanced age, I find a lot of gifts under the tree. But the one I want most is a mega shipment of Guglielmo coffee! The American...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

The Italian trip memento group photo

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How did it start? Why would you do it? Who can say? But as far back as when I lived in Allentown (at least), I've been gathering all the...
Thursday, September 01, 2022

In Italy the streets are my lab (Seconda volta)

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The first morning in Milan (which is to say the first morning of the trip), I wake at 6:50 a.m. and head out  subito  -- immediately -- on f...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

Letter from Borgo Ognissanti

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I see my life as divided in two: Before Italy and After Italy. As I wrote in my Bennington graduation lecture, "If my life were a nove...
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Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Florence journal

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July 28, 2022 It's 8:40 a.m. and so far today I have:   *Written in my journal *Jogged along the Arno *Fatto  la moka   con biscotti...

What passes for art in my head (I 💓 la moka!)

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Friday, August 05, 2022

In Italy, the streets are my lab

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OK let's back up a moment. I've told you that I want to buy everything in Italy -- even maybe the air. I've tempted you with som...
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Wednesday, August 03, 2022

I sing of ciambelline, tagliatelle & vino

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Arma virumque cano ... the three words that launch Virgil's Aeneid  (and also indirectly my study of Italian since studying the modern ...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Postcard from Torino

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Torino was a city that appeared at the margins of my Italian brain. I knew it as the city that had birthed some of my favorite writers (Prim...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Italian diary, May 2017 (re-post)

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I’m back in the “in-between” world, the space where sentences begin in one language and end in another.  It’s a world that I inhabited for m...