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Month: February 2016

We Come Home

Today is the day.  After six months of living in Italy, today is the day we make our way back home to Georgia.  Notice I said “back home”.  I wrote that without thinking.  I could have said “back to Georgia”, or just “to Georgia”.  But I said “back home”. ...

We Savor our Last Day

Well, after six months, it’s finally here.  Our last day in Italy.  We’re stunned that it came upon us so fast.  One minute we were frolicking in the Tuscan countryside and the next we were zipping our suitcases closed.  In between we amassed a lifetime of memories and had...

We Pause in Rome

We’re on our way from Anghiari to Atlanta.  Our pit stop is Rome.  We fly out Thursday late morning and didn’t want to be rushed, so we drove from Anghiari to Rome on Tuesday so that we had one full day regroup and enjoy Rome.  By now, all the...

We Leave Anghiari

Today we leave Anghiari.  We’ve rented a car to take us, Millie, and seven suitcases to Rome, where in two days we’ll leave Italy.  Leaving Anghiari is hard.  It’s harder than it was leaving Georgia back in August.  Then we were leaving to embark on this wonderful adventure, and...

We Pause to Remember

We had our last dinner with our wonderful and dear friends, Ludo, Barbara, and Ilaria and their families on Sunday night.  These are the first Italians we really ever met, and it’s because of them that we became interested in opening our store, Bella Italia.  They were all very...