December 8th. La festa dell’Immacolata Concezione/the feast of the Immaculate Conception marks the beginning of the Christmas season. The Pope comes into Rome and puts a wreath on the statue on the Imacolata in Piazza Spagna. It is a national holiday … Continue reading →
Getting into the Rome thing. Yes! We spent the morning getting groceries. First stop, the fresh pasta shop called Il Tortellino, with oh so many choices. Then into the San Cosimato market for produce. From there we took a … Continue reading →
Wow, we are really stringing together some lovely Autumn days weather wise, and we are grateful. We took off for the Spanish steps stopping for coffee at the same bar as the day before, which I am beginnning to recognize … Continue reading →
It was kind of a lazy morning, but we got out and walked towards the Ponte Sisto, stopping for coffee on the way. I was able to walk us (phone-free, just on memory) pretty directly to the Campo dei Fiori … Continue reading →
Our first really cold morning! It was 3° which is about 36° Farenheit. Laurie was waiting promptly at 8:40 to drive us to the station in Spoleto. We took a Freccia train. The ride was about an hour and 15 … Continue reading →
We seem to be getting a later start every day, just in full vacation, take it easy mode. First we got coffee at the little chocolate shop right near us which I wish we had discovered earlier. Then we … Continue reading →
We took our time getting out of the house, the dark sky not being very inviting to us. We had a nice 15 minute walk over to the Palazzo Collicola musuem. the building itself is a restored Noble’s home from … Continue reading →
Wow! Another sunny morning for us. We headed up the moving walkway to get off at Piazza Campello just below La Rocca. We walked around a bit looking for the walking loop around the fortress, made a wrong turn … Continue reading →
We awoke to a beautifully sunny Fall day. We got going fairly early to walk to the train station (about 15 minutes) to catch a ride to Assisi. I’ve gotten pretty good at buying the train tickets on the Trenitalia … Continue reading →
Whenever people ask us why we love to go to Italy, I list several reasons, but Ken always says the food, and today was a perfect example of how our Italian life works. Market day and it was just a … Continue reading →