Purse Angelina Jolie.
Today we leave Venice. It was amazing to stay up late with the sound of the boats-it was a very foggy night em which made for an even louder then normal Venice with all the boats honking and making their paths known to the others in the water. We decided to make a time to […]
Screw Sodium!
So this is the big day. All of us, and all of this, and all of them….have to get to Venice. I’m sure we’ll be fine. Right? We leave the apartment in Tuscany at 7:30 sharp. After the usual roll call and the denture check. We have to drive to Florence and drop our rental […]
BREAKING SAN G NEWS: Muppet Lounge temporarily shut down
I’ll just give you the brief highlights of today. It was a beautiful 25 degrees at least-and sunny-if a little foggy in the morning. We drive from home base into Chianti today. The wine making district. All the grapes are pretty much harvested by now-some red left-but the fields and the green vineyards are still […]
The worlds ugliest Ravioli
I’m Up at 6 again today ready to have my coffee on the balcony. It’s my favorite day in San G! Market day!!! Market day is much like the farm markets at home- 9 to noon and on a specific day of each week. Thursday is San G’s day and has been for literally a […]
Crete sensei
I’m up this morning bright and early. 6am on the balcony alone with my coffee and my blog. Yup. I could do this for a living. And besides, SOMEONE had to make the wiener pasta. So, sundried tomatoes, onions, zucchini, parm, local olive oil and penis pasta. That’s the technical recipe. Oddly enough, once I […]
The Sundried tomato and Johnson pasta incident.
This morning is glorious as the muppet in power decides we get to Sleep in! (We all follow muppet #3 around and do whatever she tells us-and we pretend it’s super annoying- but truth be known-one time she took a nap in the afternoon without telling us what to do while she was away and […]
Pompeii and I hate tunnels.
We leave beautiful amalfi today. I panicked the first time we left back in 2012. Thinking it may be the only time I get to see it, I remember having tears in my eyes as we drove away. But I’ve realized that travel has a boomerang effect. You go back to the places you love […]
Please Send Tums.
Our day started today as usual. Everyone is fighting and irritated with each other. Just kidding. Sort of. We meet for breakfast again and Nicole tells me that she found out this morning that gary has been keeping the snickers bar stash in her dirty unmentionables compartment of their suitcase. It seems that during the […]
Did anyone bring a file?
Okay so PERHAPS telling mom to leave her door open all night was a BIT of a mistake. Amalfi basically had a typhoon at 3am. Those of you reading this who know me well know I’m a sketchy mess most of the time. Although I like to consider myself brave, I can get nervous trying […]
The Muppets take Amalfi
So Nicole has been on a work tour for 2 weeks. Which has left me to wrangle Gonzo and Camilla-side note-this is what I will be calling my parents from now on. Rick-Gonzo- NO idea of his limitations- ready to rocket out of something at all times, can annoy you with questions like its his […]