Month: September 2017

We made it back to Atlanta after the long journey over the Atlantic.  We flew out of Rome, so we left Anghiari about 10:30 in the morning and took the train from Arezzo and got to Rome about 3:00.  Our time there was spent repacking for the flight home...

Our hearts are heavy as we wake up to our last full day in Anghiari.  Most of the packing is done and it always amazes me how much more we leave with than we came with.  I don’t think we buy that much, but somehow it adds up.  We...

One of our dear friends is Rossano, who used to own the sports bar where we go.  After we left, he sold the bar and is semi-retired.  Rossano gave us a very hard to find book on WWII in the Anghiari area when we lived here.  We loved to...

Ludo.  We love this man.  He was one of the first people we met in this country and he’s helped us so much over the years with our business and has remained a dear friend.  Now he has a family and we just had to see him.  We had...

I woke up this morning with 7,000 steps on my fitness tracker.  No, I didn’t have a restless night or make many trips to the bathroom.  Let me explain. After we had planned this trip we found out the Rolling Stones would be playing in Lucca, which is about...

You know, the world is a funny place and life has many hilarious quirks.  As it turned out, two other couples from Atlanta that we share a love for Italy with are enjoying their Italian vacation at the same time we are.  We made plans back in Atlanta to...

Today started cloudy and gave way to a good little shower.  We were out walking and got caught in the rain.  We ducked for cover in the lavanderia, then the church, then the portico outside the bank, and finally made a run for it back home.  It looked like...

Monday we were invited to a lunch for Busatti customers.  They have an annual meeting of all their stores in Italy and conclude it with a lunch.  It was an interesting buffet – very American fancy cocktail party kind of food.  Little bites of things in beautiful individual crocks...

Driving to Anghiari from Arezzo was as familiar as driving to work back in Atlanta.  The prostitutes along the road, the place where the road narrows, the place where the road expands to four lanes – it’s all so innate. We met Giovanni and Stefano at the Busatti store...

We took the train to Florence – very easy.  I love train travel.  It’s clean, efficient, no hassles like air travel and the train stations are almost always right in the center of town.  Plus you can sleep on a train, unlike an airplane.  Trains are perfect for a...