I had driven past this place in Lecco many times, but it’s easily overlooked – the outside of the building is unprepossessing unpainted cement, though the large sign with a mysterious painting on it is intriguing, and we heard that it was good. So we finally went last night. The menu is fixed-price, 30 euros… Continue reading Italian Restaurants: Osteria del Viaggiatore
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Keeping Cool, Italian Style
My two weeks with the lawyers reminded me of one way in which I have become very unAmerican: I hate air conditioning. Actually, I don’t really mind A/C as such, but the way Americans overdo it. The law and support team from Florida was baffled by the relative lack of air conditioning in Milan’s hot,… Continue reading Keeping Cool, Italian Style
Red-Eared Sliders in da House!
We don’t have a normal array of pets. We have a horse (if you can call a horse a pet; at any rate, he doesn’t live with us), and we have two turtles, Poirot and Marple. We don’t know their sexes, so they’re not M. Poirot and Miss Marple, just Poirot and Marple. We do… Continue reading Red-Eared Sliders in da House!
Gender Identity Crises: Can’t They Tell I’m a Woman?
Back in August I wrote about the difficulties of being named Deirdré, which no one can spell or pronounce. An additional problem arose when I began dealing with large numbers of people online: many people don’t know whether it’s a male or female name. The default assumption was that I was male, perhaps because people… Continue reading Gender Identity Crises: Can’t They Tell I’m a Woman?
Other People’s Bookshelves
In the course of looking for a place to live in Lecco, we’ve seen the insides of many strangers’ homes, up for sale (for the moment we’ve ended up renting, but that’s another story). The décor was extremely variable. Many Italian homes run to a type I think of as “classic” Italian: heavy, dark wood… Continue reading Other People’s Bookshelves