Already 3 weeks I can’t believe how quickly time goes by, it’s already been 3 weeks. The photos I took over the last seven days are mostly of food, which is pretty normal considering the number of meals we eat. The week started with a bowl of shrimp soup, a cake pop (made by a 5 yr […]
365 Project – week 2
Fourteen down, 351 to go The week went something like this…I finally finished the felted bee I started over a month ago. I took a road trip with my sisters, got a bunch of antique buttons, had an electrical plug blow up in my hand, took part in a food and wine tasting and went to a […]
365 Project
A picture a day A picture a day for 365 days, that’s the challenge at hand. Can I do it? I’m not sure, I’ve tried doing a picture a day for the month of May project last year and believe it or not, I didn’t take a picture on May 1st and then figured what […]
Amsterdam: 48 Hour City Card
City cards We’ve hummed and hawed about city cards in the past. Either because we didn’t feel they gave us enough time to enjoy the sights that were offered but mostly because the sights offered weren’t what we wanted to see. Then we tried the iamsterdam card and our views changed. With 50 museums and […]
Torino, Images of a Shrouded City
Torino Turin is best known as the stage of the 2006 winter Olympics. It is the home of the Shroud of Turin and is also known as the Automobile Capital of Italy as it is home to Fiat. Turin is a great city, packed with museums, galleries, parks and one of the biggest outdoor/indoor markets […]
Borgo Garibaldi – a pictorial
Borgo Garibaldi We rented an apartment at Cà Borgo Vecchio in Borgo Garibaldi, it made for a comfortable base from where to explore the area. Borgo Garibaldi is a suburb of Brusasco in the Piedmont region of Italy. The Borgo is small and consists of a castle, and a few buildings built around the church, […]
Michelangelo’s Marble
Serchio Valley Installed in our artist’s pad, it was time to go enjoy the Serchio Valley and all its little villages, some stuck in the deep dark woods. The first order of business was to drive up to Trassilico, a tiny village perched on a mountain top at about 1700m above sea level. Our Castellina […]
Small Town Fun in Massarosa
Your night’s entertainment What do you do when you’ve been in a small town for a while, have seen all the sights, tried all the restaurants and think there’s nothing left to do? Find an interesting building with a spotlight and you’ve found your night’s entertainment. Massarosa After a month in Massarosa, we […]