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Venice Floats My Boat

 

On the day we left Venice there were seven cruise ships (7!) docked at the Porto di Venezia, a short walk from the apartment Jerry and I were renting.

The ships had names:

The Happy Dolphin,

Europa…

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Added by Rosie DeQuattro on May 1, 2014 at 10:19am — No Comments

Bike Trip in Southern Arizona: Like Coasting Uphill

 

The rugged, dry mountains surrounding part of southern Arizona, was the location of our excellent bicycling trip with  Sojourn Adventures

For six days of perfect weather (80 degrees, sunny, dry) last March, we biked through the…

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Added by Rosie DeQuattro on March 31, 2014 at 3:43pm — No Comments

North Haven, Maine: On Being "From Away"

 

The town bulletin board

 

Two weeks can be a long time.  But two weeks of sparkling, clear days, one just like the next, can never be long enough.

There is something about the…

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Added by Rosie DeQuattro on February 20, 2012 at 1:45pm — No Comments

Boston's North End

The northern bulge of the city of Boston, the "North End," is the Italian district--some think of it as Boston's Italian Epcot.  Almost every restaurant is Italian.  The street signs are in Italian.  The bakeries are all Italian (connoli, taralli, biscotti, etc.).  Even the pharmacy is…

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Added by Rosie DeQuattro on February 8, 2012 at 8:47am — No Comments

Sicily Seven

Wednesday, November 4, 2009





And we're off! Leaving for Sicily in two days! It's a trip that we've been planning for a year. We're all going: Joyce, Rosie, Susan, Debbie, Donna, Cathy and Mummy! Someone will be bringing a laptop so I'm hoping to be blogging from beautiful downtown Taormina, Sicily. We are planning to visit the birthplace of Mom's mother and father, Trecastagni, too, a town not too far from smoldering Mt. Etna. Assuming… Continue

Added by Rosie DeQuattro on November 30, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

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