Update: Found the link to the honey grower’s website (Italian). This past weekend was just a preview of the hot summer my mind temporarily forgot occurs every year. Summer in Milan isn’t great, in fact, unless you have a cool haven (preferrably with air conditioning), it can be a bit unbearable. Most of the city [...]

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I’m not able to keep up with myself! I left off a post about Berlin, Spoleto needs to be woken up, and I have many more! But I thought I would write about another stop on the Tour del Gelato because it’s timely. Why timely? Recently, everyone has been talking about Grom in the U.S., [...]

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Deidre always has some funny Italian signage or newspaper headlines to share, but this is on my way to work every day so I couldn’t resist. I often have what?!? moments in Italy as things that no one notices here would probably make headlines somewhere else, and vice versa. So many directions I could take [...]

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“Don’t tell her what time we arrive.” This was how a meeting between close friends was to begin, with a lie, with an evasion. But it was necessary. We decided to do our normal night train down south so that we could “earn” another day during our little vacation, one of the several long weekends [...]

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Ms. Adventures in Italy received a runner-up mention for Best Use of Color from April’s Does My Blog Look Good in This? competition for my hot pepper picture from the How to Make Hot Pepper Chili Oil post. Thanks, judges! *honored* I’m glad that this month I was able to participate in the Monthly Mingle [...]

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