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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘trips’
bitte?
Posted in descriptive, humorous, summer, year 1, tagged Alto-Adige, Bolzano, food, trips on Friday 1 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In fair Verona…
Posted in descriptive, photographic, summer, year 1, tagged opera, trips, Veneto, Verona on Friday 1 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So Natalie and I bought tickets to go see “Carmen” at the Roman arena in Verona. Since the opera runs late, we decided to make a trip of it and spend the night. So off we went to Verona a week ago, and arrived to find a charming little town (albet one that’s overrun by [...]
more on Split (belatedly)
Posted in descriptive, spring, year 1, tagged Croatia, Split, trips on Monday 31 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(a belated update that I’ve been meaning to post, copied from my journal) Yesterday we wandered through the Marjan forest, which is really more of a forested hill on a peninsula, with the sea on either side. It was gorgeously dark and evergreen that brings to mind either Narnia or “Peter and the Wolf,” depending [...]
Hrvatska!
Posted in descriptive, regular, spring, year 1, tagged Croatia, Split, trips on Thursday 27 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nope, my computer keyboard didn’t just hiccup. I didn’t know that “Hrvatska” was the word for Croatia in Croatian either, at least not until last Friday, which is when we went to Croatia. Yes! We did go after all. We figured that it was a unique opportunity too good to pass up–because Croatia is probably [...]
the gist
Posted in descriptive, regular, winter, year 1, tagged big decision, Bologna, Campania, food, friends, Herculaneum, Mom, Napoli, New Year's, parties, pasta, snow, trips, visits on Monday 28 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my English classes we do this thing called “reading for gist,” which is where you’re not supposed to read every word for detail but instead read the entire article quickly to get a sense of the thing. (Incidentally, my students hate this.) This is going to be “gist writing,” because I have exactly 20 [...]
Natalie and Venezia
Posted in descriptive, winter, year 1, tagged food, friends, trips, Veneto, Venice, visits on Monday 7 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So as I mentioned before, one of the reasons we stayed in Italy for Christmas was because Emily’s and my good friend Natalie was coming to visit us on the 26th! She was to fly into Venice and spend a couple days there with us before coming down to spend the rest of her visit [...]
Slovenija!
Posted in descriptive, photographic, winter, year 1, tagged Christmas, cold, food, Ljubljana, roommates, Slovenia, snow, students, TEFL, trips, work on Friday 28 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I have a lot to catch up on in these past few frenetic weeks, beginning with our weekend trip to Slovenia! Julia and I finished work on Thursday the 20th. The last week of teaching was nice–most of my classes had tests, and instead of normal lessons I had them do Christmas-themed word finds, [...]
