Happy Valentine’s Day – I ♥u guys!
Over the Christmas holidays, I ran into Clotilda*. She is a really smart and funny gal I used to work with, back in the day when I had an income […]
Tag Archives: Musings
Cultural profiling
I play a game when we are traveling. Every time I see a bleach blond with sky-high heels, too much makeup, dressed like a hooker I say “Russian mail-order bride”. To […]
Rembrandt Square – Amsterdam
On our last trip to Amsterdam we happened upon a Rembrandt Square and it took me back to 1997 when we were in Amsterdam for the first time for pleasure. […]
Street fashion Florence
I believe in Karma. This is important to know because my actions are not always rational, well, my husband would have you believe this. For example, I often give beggars […]
Viareggio, come for the food and then RUN!
It was a most enticing picture from this slideshow, on the NY Times travel section that brought us to Viareggio for the day. We were guided in the parking lot by a lovely […]
Ponte Vecchio, Florence
The old bridge or the GOLD bridge as an elderly gentleman from Boston called it, is just a bridge with loads of shops on both sides of the road. It […]
Summer project
As a child, with a 3-month vacation stretched out in front of me, I felt the need to do something every summer. As an only child of working parents, I […]
My gift to William and Kate
Being born in a Republic I was not automatically a fan of Royalty. I thought it was a silly and expensive folly created to attract tourists. But then came Diana […]
Do you hoard?
I like to travel but I need to know where I am going and what I am going to. A good friend of mine tried to coax me into going […]
I think my neighbor has an OCD
Today is a lovely summer day. The temperature is warm, the sky is overcast but bright, and it is raining. It is a wonderful summer rain with thick raindrops, splashing down on big wide leaves making lots of noise. Today is one of the few days I have not awakened to the birds fighting over whose worm. No. Today my neighbor, mowing his lawn, awakens me.
