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- “Down on Main Street” (Corso G.)
Our Little Town: Down on Main Street
28 Tuesday Mar 2017
Posted in Travel
Author Archives: jturner@mi-connection.com
Italian Lessons: A Simple Conversation
28 Tuesday Mar 2017
Posted in Education
What should be a simple conversation
Is, for me, a pick-up game: too one-sided.
Latugga, I heard.
Proscuitto, I said.
Oggi arrivato, Rebecca heard What was all Greek to me.
Just so much more I have to learn.
Our New Digs: Name that Pop Tune
28 Tuesday Mar 2017
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- “A Stairway to Heaven”
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- “Behind Closed Door”
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- “Chain Chain Chain,” we hope
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- “Delta Dawn”
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- “In a Garden of Eden”
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- “Knock Three Times”
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- “To Every Season”
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- “Up on the Roof”
Italian Lessons: The First Order of Business
28 Tuesday Mar 2017
Posted in Education
To: Reb, my Excel Queen
From: Carlo, a courteous driver
Re: Whenever windy? = “Vento” (& not “pinto,” U backseat idiot)
Date: Morning, Day 1 in Spoleto
To: jt, the daft Memo King
From: Our Friendly Clerk, Anonymous Still
Re: Forever Clueless? = “Hurry Up, Please, It’s Time to Mind the Gap” (in other words, to drop the English references and get crackin’ on your Italian)
Date: Afternoon, Day 1 in Spoleto
Photo INOP
27 Monday Mar 2017
Posted in Art
Had I been able to realize every one of the photo ops that I saw from the moving car, the image gallery would look something like this:
Deer cross frequently in these parts.
The old Flaminia way is crooked as can be.
Green fields. Yellow flowers. Bare trees.
Tunnels burrow through these mountains.
Sheep (maggot-like?) graze on a distant hill.
Wild asparagus being harvested close at hand.
Buildings sprout out of the rock.
Spires tower over the towns.
Spoleto comes into view.
Blame It on the Vertigo
27 Monday Mar 2017
Posted in Travel
A couple of years back, I wrote a post about the Yugo Mercedes. I joked at the time about the very odd pedigree, speculating on its evolutionary descent.
This year, with Rebecca still testing out her roundabouts with vertigo, we latched on to “the mother ship,” with a smoooooth ride and a cool operator.
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- “Made by the Shades”
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- “Precious Cargo”
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- “The Big Daddy”
Our First Spring
26 Sunday Mar 2017
Posted in Travel
Maybe Something in the Stone
21 Friday Oct 2016
Posted in Travel
Makes a body feel at home.
Still Time to Work on the Latin Translation
21 Friday Oct 2016
Posted in Education
ANNIBALE, DOPO AVER SCONFITTO I ROMANI AL TRASIMENO, RESPINTO DA SPOLETO CON GRANDE STRAGE DEI SUOI, MENTRE MARCIAVA ALL’ATTACCO DI ROMA. CON LA MEMORABILE FUGA DETTE IL NOME A QUESTA PORTA.
Our Favorite Way to Shop
19 Wednesday Oct 2016
Strictly hands-on, with the friendliest folk, at the closest spot.
