For the sake of not spending too many favorite things on landmarks alone, today we’re combining two of Bologna’s most famous iconic sights and favorite meeting places: the two towers and the fountain of Neptune. After you’ve been in Italy for a while, you begin to ask yourself why the leaning tower of Pisa is [...]
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#16: Leaning towers and naked pagan gods
Posted in descriptive, humorous, photographic, reflective on Tuesday 7 June, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Is The Bear a Cat?
Posted in humorous, regular on Saturday 18 September, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Arguments against: 1) Independent Exhibit A: When we come home after dark, he’s usually waiting right outside the door, on his feet. It’s become clear over time that he runs to the door when he hears the key in the lock. And no, we do not feed him in the evening.Exhibit B: If one is [...]
aftermath
Posted in humorous, regular, year 3, tagged crazy cat, sick, The Bear on Monday 14 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The aftermath of yesterday’s events: 1) Apparently eating a massive lunch a week or so after finally recovering from mysterious Asian gastrointestinal virus = much suffering 12 hours later. 2) While I was suffering, the cat, either thrilled or freaked out by all the new space opened up by the repositioning of the bed, raced [...]
my cat is…
Posted in humorous, tagged cat, irritating, The Bear on Saturday 4 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…essentially Simon’s Cat in the flesh.
bambina deliziosa
Posted in humorous, year 2, tagged mosquitos on Saturday 27 June, 2009 | 1 Comment »
(observe: another post, and I’ve already done two this month!) The first time I came to Italy, in June 1994 when I was 8 years old, nearly 9 (or was it 1993, when I was 7 years old, nearly 8?? I am suddenly filled with doubts.), I was eaten alive by mosquitoes. This led my [...]
I really need to mop…
Posted in humorous, regular, year 2 on Friday 19 June, 2009 | 1 Comment »
…So I’ll update my blog for the first time in months instead. Life is sailing along at a pretty tranquil pace. My courses at Anglo American have ended, and at the moment I’m teaching three intensive courses. This sounds hard, but the fact is that the courses are much tougher on the students than on [...]
hmm…
Posted in humorous, regular, year 2, tagged The Bear, turkitty on Thursday 27 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If the kitty doesn’t start getting much cuddlier very soon, we might just have to have him for Thanksgiving. In the turkey. Like a turducken. Turkitty! [Turkitty (TM) Natalie Pye]
The Great Apartment Hunt
Posted in descriptive, humorous, regular, year 2, tagged apartment, apartment-hunting on Saturday 13 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(Warning: this was five single-spaced pages in Microsoft Word) The last few days of apartment hunting have been at once so surreal, nerve-wracking, hilarious, and dismaying that I don’t even know where to start. I suppose I’ll start with our first real failed attempt… The One with the Guy from Kosovo I’ll admit that [...]
bitte?
Posted in descriptive, humorous, summer, year 1, tagged Alto-Adige, Bolzano, food, trips on Friday 1 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So you think you know Italy…and then you go to the Alto-Adige. We had been sitting by the river in Verona, preparing to return to Bologna and paging idly through the Let’s Go guide. One of us noted that the description of Bolzano looked lovely. Then we noted that it was only an hour or [...]
