I had some visitors in town recently, and though their trip was over by the time I posted How to Order an Italian Coffee and How to Avoid a Pickpocket and those posts were no help to them, I was lucky enough to be able to join them on the weekend in Venice and do [...]

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It’s funny the things that make you nostalgic. It’s sticky hot here in Milan, and for the first time I won’t be going back to California for the summer. This time four years ago, I had already left California for Italy, and I made a pit stop in Spain since I had never been there. [...]

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How to Order an Italian Coffee in Italy is now a book on Amazon Kindle with twice the content, all-new photos and Italian pronunciation guides! Buy your copy now! There are so many different types of Italian coffee, and by now we know them all, right? Latte, mocha, Frappuccino… You won’t find a single drink [...]

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Think you’re savvy enough to avoid being pickpocketed?? A video recently made the rounds about some pickpockets in action at the Stazione Centrale at Milan (the main train station) and I thought about how I consider myself to be relatively paranoid when it comes to traveling and I am quite overprotective about my things. Now, [...]

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Last year I attended a 4th of July barbecue-aperitivo organized by various expat groups. I didn’t partake of the buffet but I was there more for the company than anything. This year the BBQ was on a Sunday and I was out of town, so I was lucky enough to be invited to a small [...]

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