Entries from February 2007

Carnevale War Zone in Milan

February 26th, 2007 · 6 Comments

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 Duomo area because we heard there was going to be a sfilata, a parade and were interested to see how it [...]

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Tags: Behind the Scenes · Carnevale · Culture · Discovering Italy · Holiday · Italy · Milan

Carnevale in Manfredonia, Puglia

February 23rd, 2007 · 4 Comments

[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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Tags: Behind the Scenes · Carnevale · Culture · Discovering Italy · Holiday · Italy · Puglia

Seeing Carnevale through the eyes of Children

February 22nd, 2007 · 3 Comments

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 the [...]

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Tags: Carnevale · Italy · Puglia

Pictures from an Outdoor Market in Puglia

February 19th, 2007 · 7 Comments

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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Tags: Holiday · Italy · Puglia

Things You Don’t Know about Me

February 14th, 2007 · 19 Comments

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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