• Girls day out

    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…

  • il mare

    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…

  • Wiener

    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…

  • 14 feet along the Cinque Terre

    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…

  • gelato e pasta

    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…

  • casa al mare

    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…

  • Take Five

    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…