If all goes well today, tomorrow Phoenix will broadcast a real movie from Mars. –rakkity
Michael, On our way to the Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, we learned that the Baptistry (adjacent to the Duomo and the Torre) has wonderful echoing acoustics. The echoes are exploited by chanting singers every half hour during the day, so I came to the Baptistry ready to record. This is a big file (85 […]
Hi Mike, It looks like you all returned from Aruba about the same time we got back to Boulder, but you don’t have any jet lag, while we do. Right now in Colorfulado it’s dinner time, but my brain and stomach are confused because it’s 2 am in Manarola, Italy. Our flights back from Sicily […]
Ciao from Italy, Here are a couple of pictures from CInqueterre and the Aeolian Is. One shows the view from our Manarola hotel window of the farmed wall across the street. Another is of Beth on the Via del Amore between Riomaggiore and Manarola. Another is of a pretty flower by the trail from Vernazza […]
Hi KT, We finally got out of the US on BA. (23 h of travelling yesterday!) We’re writing frim Vernazza, having taken the wong boat (but that’s all right it was cheaper) We got in a line at the harbor, thinking we were going to RioMaggiore. All these 5’Terre towns look alike’ — beautiful! Today […]
Michael, Perhaps I was overly pessimistic in predicting catastrophes in our trip to Italy, but look at what has happened so far– 1. Alitalia sends email saying that Sicily’s main airport at Catania has closed for repairs, and that we must fly to Palermo instead. (This adds to our itinerary.a 3 hour bus ride across […]
Michael, You might be interested in a discussion paralleling Weinstein’s. The Economist, Apr 12 2008 Homo Mobilis As language goes, so does thought. ….For about 250 years, the consensus in Western societies has been that grammar, syntax and spelling matter, and that rules have to be observed. That consensus now appears to be at risk. […]
Mike, Is this what Stromboli (our hiking destination next week) looks like when it does its thing? –rakkity
Mike, This is where we’re spending the long weekend, Friday-Monday. Ciao, rakkity
Hi Katie, Yesterday I returned to civilization from our Escalante side-canyons trip. At our base camp, the wind blew like a banshee all day and every day. But on our hikes down into the canyons we were protected from the winds and it was warmer and more fun. We day-hiked in 2 canyons — Horse […]
Hi Katie, Yesterday I returned to civilization from our Escalante side-canyons trip. At our base camp, the wind blew like a banshee all day and every day. But on our hikes down into the canyons we were protected from the winds and it was warmer and more fun. We day-hiked in 2 canyons — Horse […]
The rakkities are risking a trip to Italy in May. (Manarola, in Cinqueterre on May 9-12, then Pisa, then Sicily and the Aeolian Islands, May 15-22.) MAY 2008 HEADLINES May 7. Alitalia airlines goes bankrupt, IATA revokes Alitalia’s license before a buyout can occur. Newly elected Prime Minister Berlusconi promises that his government will fix […]