Language and Shopping
The most complicated thing I've (tried to) shop for is an Italian cell phone. It'd be easy to simply get any old cheap phone, just something that'll make and take calls, and do SMS... But I'm a tech...
Cimitero Monumentale
Milano's Cimitero Monumentale - Monumental Cemetery - is beyond words. It rivals many museums of architecture and sculpture and offers a lesson one could spend years studying. The architectural...
Sunday Sounds
The 10-foot high French doors are wide open. (Are they called "Italian doors" since we're in Italy?) We had a long, strong rain last night and the air is cool. The sky is blue. Someone in an...
Sunday Brunch, Day Three
I guess I could have gotten a bigger plate. A little of this, a little of that and all of a sudden the small plate was piled high with proscuitto crudo, scamorza affumicata, focaccia with carmelized...
Cheese Heaven
There's a really great grocery store that I walk to about a mile away. It's a good thing that it's two miles there and back and that I walk because I keep finding really delicious cheeses to try...
Door Knocker
A pair of these beautiful, iron hands knock on double doors along Corso San Gottardo, between my apartment and the grocery store. They stopped me in my tracks.
Graffiti Spiral
This spiral greeted me as I stepped out of the Romolo subway stop near home.
M!
I'm always looking for an interesting "M", since that's my first initial and often how I sign my letters and e-mails. This one is quite beautiful, found just around the corner from my apartment,...
Fascination with America
I saw these two one-day-after-the-other: 1) A display in the subway station advertising a shop that sells "American Indian artifacts" (yeah, right!), and 2) Pop corn, branded with the image of a...
Nesting
I'm such a nester. Always have been. I awoke at 4:30 or so this morning, Saturday, forced sleep 'til about 5:30 then got up. Cup of coffee at my side, I wrote and messed with photos for a while 'til...
No one to call from the duomo
Yesterday morning at 11:00 I came up out of the subway right in front of the magnificent duomo. Wow. Such a sight and it was great to be back again; I enjoyed it so much last year. It reminds me of...
Apartment key
I don't see keys like this in the U.S. Anyone else? This is my main apartment door key, although I have 4 to use by the time I get in: one at the sidewalk gate; one at the door to the hallway; two...