Category: Italia
-
90 days in Italia
We left Rome on Thursday December 20 and were back in Boston for the holidays. Rome was another great experience for us and we really loved the city. We didn’t get to know it quite as well as Paris but it is a bit more spread out, it has hills and their public transit system […]
-
Roma with Kathy and Lyn
On Wednesday November 28 our friend Kathy Lloy Collins arrived for a one week stay and had invited her friend Lyn Caruso to join us. Sandy knows Lyn also and has worked with her at Lahey. Sandy served them her homemade cannelloni bean soup and fresh baked banana bread while we all caught up on […]
-
Thanksgiving in Rome
Holidays can be a hard time to be away from home; away from familiar routines, away from familiar foods, away from friends and most of all away from family. Our prior life of Jim working nights, weekends and holidays makes the transition to the expat holidays much easier as we have never had a set […]
-
Two weekends with Don & Madeleine
Don & Madeleine Leone moved into Beacon Street in March of 2016 when our upstairs neighbors Dick and Andrew moved to Berlin and rented out their condominium. We lived below them until we moved out in March of 2017 and became quite close friends during that one year. They are expats who moved back to […]
-
Italia with Catarina, Jason, Nico, Katia and Natalia
Wow, what do we say to being able to spend 10 days in Italy with our son Jason and his family. They arrived tired and bedraggled after the overnight flight from Boston to Rome. We were so happy to see them and they were just ready to eat and sleep. They slept for a few […]
-
Marjy & Dan in Rome
On Sunday November 28 we greet Marjy and Dan outside 230 via Nazionale. They traveled on Swiss with a quick one hour stopover in Zurich for a connecting flight to Rome. Marjy did not get any sleep on the flights so after having some light snacks they took a 3-4 hour nap. When they awoke […]
-
la Corsa dei Santi
November 1 is All Saints day and a national holiday in Italy and it is also Jim’s birthday. In researching road races in Italy we came across la Corsa dei Santi which is a 10K starting and ending in Vatican City at Piazza San Pietro. This was a perfect Rome run as we have a […]
-
Surprise friends in Rome
On Tuesday October 9 we received a text from a friend that we worked with 30+ years ago that said “look who we bumped into”. She was in Sorrento at a wine tasting with her “little sister” and volunteered to take a picture of another couple as they looked vaguely familiar. We worked with Judy […]
-
Roma
We left Milan by train on 3 October going from the 2nd largest train station, Milano Centrale to the largest station in Italy, Roma Termini which is less than 1 km from our Airbnb in central Rome. We walked to our new home and were met by our lovely host Stefania who oriented us to […]
-
Milano
Next stop Milan by train from Verona. The Italian trains have been very comfortable with reserved seating and drinks and snacks being served in business class. The express trains get up to nearly 200 kilometers per hour so they are also much faster than driving. After settling into our Airbnb we had lunch and walked […]
-
Verona, City of Love
On 27 September the seven of us boarded a water taxi to the train station for the next leg of Tina’s 60th birthday trip. Verona, a UNESCO world heritage site, is a city in northern Italy with a medieval old town along the beautiful Adige river. It is famous for being the setting of Shakespeare’s Romeo […]
-
Venice with friends
We left Boston on September 21 heading for Venezia Italia to meet up with five of our traveling mates. Henry & Andrew, our stalkers from Berlin, were of course there. Our neighbors from Boston; Margaret Deutsch, Peggy Scott and Tina Scarlata also joined us. This trip was planned by Tina as a 60th birthday trip […]
Living the retirement dream 