Susan and Matea went out this afternoon… on their way out.  … for Matea to get her hair cut (I believe her first real cut since we moved to this country in August…

One of the great things about being along the sea is, of course, the sea.  All four of our kids love the water – and we made the most of the fact that…

A few weeks ago I got to go to Vienna to conduct some research for my second year PhD paper.   For my paper I am investigating what allows resource-constrained individuals to be…

Since the idea of the Cinque Terre holiday is fundamentally about hiking between the villages, that is exactly what we spent a fair amount of our time doing.  So there were 7 of us walking…

One of the things that is hard not to like about Italy is the Gelato. Not only is it good (at least if you get it from a place that actually makes it – not…

We had a pretty spectacular place to stay while we where in Cinque Terre, about 200 m above the sea along a rocky outcropping among the vines of local wine growers. heading in…

The week before Susan’s parents left we took a trip together to Italy – to the Cinque Terre.  These are five small towns along the northern coast not far from Genoa that are…