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Italian Weddings: Greeting the Bride and Groom with Rice, Pasta and Confetti

June 16th, 2009 · No Comments

New here? Subscribe to my RSS feed – http://feeds.feedburner.com/MsAdventuresinItaly or receive email updates! I’m on Twitter as @rossoAfter the post on a Wedding in Tuscany, I promised to show you what happens when the bride and groom come out of the church. At the bottom of this post I’ve listed who won the Pocket [...]

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Rome from the Back of a Vintage Vespa Scooter

April 22nd, 2009 · 16 Comments

When I lived in Rome, I spent a lot of time on the back of a motorino, scooter. Mainly because I didn’t have a car, most people I knew didn’t have one, either, and those that had a form of transportation had a motorino. The lucky ones had a Vespa.

So if you were getting a [...]

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Visit Trastevere, Rome in Early Morning

March 24th, 2009 · 28 Comments

Friday and Saturday nights in Roman neighborhood Trastevere are extremely busy. So much so that when I actually lived there I rarely was able to sleep in the summer/fall months. Groups stay in Trastevere drinking and carousing until early hours below the windows of people who actually live there. For this reason, it was always [...]

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Lo Zingaro Nature Reserve in Sicily

November 24th, 2008 · 12 Comments

I haven’t written much about my trip to Sicily this summer, though I have lots of Sicily posts from last year’s trip. It’s also a special torture for me to write this as the first snow is hitting the ground here in Milan.
Last year, there were many wildfires and so we were unable to go [...]

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Tags: Discovering Italy · Italy · Sicily

Fighting Fires with Canadair Planes in Puglia’s Gargano, Italy

September 25th, 2008 · 11 Comments

During the summer I am destined to be surrounded by wildfires. California had a particularly busy summer while I was there, last summer in Sicily was marred by smoky skies, and this year while I was in Puglia, there were more wildfires. (Feed readers, you’ll want to click through the site to see the video [...]

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Tags: Discovering Italy · Italy · Puglia