Upbeat and Downstairs: Home of Daryl C. DuLong

After a day in Venezia and a day in Ferrara, I must admit that our Italian language skills are improving a bit! This language education via immersion is paying off. For starters, people used to ask us if we had a lighter and we would try our best to answer in Italian, probably [...]

Aaron and I have wrapped up our travels in Firenze and Arezzo and have headed north to Bologna. Last night we met up with my long-time friend Marika and went out to a traditional Italian bar. Very cool!
By the way, we have a few more observations: Three, most of the people we have [...]

Ciao, ancora!
Aaron and I just returned from a day in Arezzo, the birthplace of Roberto Benigni and the location for the filming of La Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful). Gorgeous! It’s a very quiet city with a lot of charm and character.
Congratulations to those who graduated from the Simon School today. [...]

Ciao! Greetings from Italy.
Aaron and I have successfully made it to Italy and are taking the country by storm. We started in Roma (after passing through Milano) and will now spend a week and a half trying to get back to Milano.
I’ll try to make posts here as much as [...]