Category: Traveling

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. Buona fortuna e tanti auguri.

Off to browse Firenze a little more. Arriverderci!

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 possible, but I don’t know how many internet cafes we’ll run into in our travels.

Two observations so far: One, whatever stereotypes you may have about Italians riding around on scooters saying “ciao” are absolutely correct. Millions of them, traveling at 80km/hr down tiny streets. Two: I’m 5 for 7 for people approaching me and speaking Italian to me, expecting me to know how to respond. (Must be the pants.) The two who didn’t were quite accurate in their assessment.

We’re in Firenze now, and will be heading to Bologna in a couple of days.

As for the food – I’m going to return to the States a very fat man.