On Taking Candy From Strangers
Values Clarification Opportunity: you’ve just gotten off the train in a strange city where you don’t know a soul and don’t speak the language. A gray haired gentleman scurries over […]
Monthly Archives: November 2024
Campania Catch Up
I have been feeling a bit self-conscious blabbling about my carefree rambles through La Bella Italia while so much of what I care for back home is under siege. But […]
Naples
I spent pretty much all of yesterday train-hopping my way down the west coast via a series of train changes: Vernazza-La Spezia-Rome-Naples-Sorrento. Each of the hops brought a little trepidation […]
Vernazza – the Cinque Terre Stairmaster
Wait, you’re saying (quite reasonably, I might add) – didn’t you already do the Cinque Terre thing? It was, like, just one blog post ago, right?…
Lucca
Okay, I tried, I really tried. Florence was like that girl that your friends fix you up with: “You’ll love her! She’s smart like you, and gorgeous. Drop dead gorgeous.”
And she is both…
Cinque Terre, or Oops – I Did it Again
So, that last post was about holding my nose and signing up for a “group experience,” then, well, really enjoying it. So I decided to roll the dice again. My […]
Okay, That Was Fun
Y’all know that I carry a bit of misguided pride on being that sort of solo traveler who tends to shun preplanned group activities in favor of venturing out unguided […]
The Stones of Florence
It’s not the weight of history, per se, here. Not the unimaginable years these stones of Florence have been piled up and torn down again and again….
David Pablo Cohn 