New here? Check out “Best Of” for some top posts, subscribe to my RSS feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MsAdventuresinItaly or receive email updates!I know you thought Carnevale was on Tuesday, and it’s over, right? Wrong. In Milan, Carnevale is on Saturday (due to the Ambrosian rite), and it was this past Saturday.
We went to the [...]

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[Readers without Borders] Check out my mini-review of John Maeda’s Laws of Simplicity at RWB since I attended his talk this week in Milan.
[Umbria Jazz] Starting lineup for this year’s festival in July is out now on their site.

Innovation in Italy has a Name……and thy name is Carnevale.
Continuing my coverage on Carnevale in Manfredonia, [...]

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UPDATE: Just in case my “wonderful” plugin slideshow isn’t working on my site, you can click through to the Flickr slideshow of the children here.
The best part about Carnevale this year was walking around taking pictures of everyone waiting for the parade to start. I mentioned that one of the most popular parts of [...]

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On another “page,” I’m a contributor for a new cross-border book blog, Readers Without Borders that is starting out as a bunch of expats in different countries talking about books! Who knows which direction it will take. Come on over, check out the other reviews and add your own! I hope to get some good [...]

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I’ve been very busy at work with a big project, but I took the time this weekend to upgrade my Wordpress and therefore change my theme so I can use sidebar widgets. It was a bit of a mess with Yahoo! web hosting but luckily my day job served me well to get down and [...]

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UPDATE: We have an important late entry, but she RSVP’d a long time ago so I wanted to republish the round-up! When Cream Puffs in Venice cooks, I pay attention! :) Check below for her entry.

Don’t forget to check out the other half of the Nutella Day round-up with Shelley at At Home [...]

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Are you participating in World Nutella Day? You MUST send an email to nutelladay **at** nutelladay **dot** com today with your entry to be included in the round-up on the 7th, tomorrow.
Don’t forget to add your pics to the Nutella Day Flickr pool!

Happy World Nutella Day to all!
I wanted to give a big shout-out to [...]

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[Best Pancake] Think you know where the best pancake is in Chicago, San Francisco, New York or Seattle?? Join Menuism’s Food Fight!
[Funny clip] Drew Barrymore cracks me up - I have done an 80s workout video like this, the low-impact moves.
[Powerpoint Killer?] Google is looking to add a Powerpoint substitute to their online apps. Yay!

What [...]

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