tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295805252011-04-22T04:09:22.372+03:00O, Israel, hope in the LORD from this time forth and forever. Psalm 131:3 The LORD will guard your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forever. Psalm 121:8 ----------------------------------------------------------------This is a place to keep up with Lisa's coming's and goings, especially travels in Italy, and possibly beyond. That is...if internet connections are not too hard to find.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421742224759532365noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29580525.post-1153940051818942952006-07-26T20:30:00.000+03:002007-10-20T00:34:48.140+03:00

Panzanella (Bread and Tomato Salad)was served one evening at the Crociani Agritourismo. I enjoyed it so much that I asked how to make this summer dish. However, because I appreciate the structure of a recipe, I recently found this on the Epicurious website and it matches pretty closely to the basic ingredients used in Italy...except I was told that a person could add any vegetable they felt

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It's so hard not to say that, when you are actually in Rome as I am, here in a little internet point next to my youth hostel. It's almost ten o'clock. I spent the afternoon on a train from Montepulciano. The manager of the youth hostel said that I probably shouldn't try to go to visit the Vatican because it would close in a few hours anyway. But that was on my list of to-do's so I went as

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So what shall I write about first, my trip to Rome, Italy's win in the championship game, or maybe the fact that I finally discovered where the apostrophe button is on this Italian keyboard (the proof is behind the word Italy above and yes, keyboards are a little different here). Allora (um...so), the festa. Italy won the world cup last night. Campioni del mundo! This may or may not be in the

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I believe that means-victory. In case you didnt know, Italy won a very important game against germany last night in the World Cup for soccer. The only goals were scored by Italy in the last two minutes of overtime. This means that they are going to play in the final match this Sunday. I watched the game last night with Enrico Toigo, his young friend from Genova IT who loves American cars, and

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My father arrived in Italy in the evening the day before yesterday...so Ive had less time to escape and do the small things, like post this blog. But, alas, we have all stopped in Montepulciano... and Enrico and my father went to get something to drink so here I am. In the past few days, I went to an amazing dance club with three different levels--one for salsa/merengue, one for oldies, and one

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It would be difficult to get the full impact of this georgeous spot by looking at this photo. Imagine that beneath that little Lisa figure is 7 feet of salty water over giant mossy rocks. About where the photographer is standing was the giant rock tiny Lisa dived off of to enter the water. mmmm.

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I had quite an amazing weekend away. In part, because I had was doing something so new…traveling alone and staying in a hostel. Some of these things were a little sketchy, but the only casualty I suffered was a nice sunburn from the waist down and the disappearance of my 5 Euro sunglasses. Since it so happened that Andrea Licavoli and I were in Italy at the same time… through short phone calls

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Well, again I want to be writing so much more than I can. I will sit down today at my laptop and write somethign that I can then move to this internet point that I pay for by the hour. I can hardly write what I want in this short time. Moreover, I need to walk down the "hill" for about half an hour in this "caldo" (heat) to get home for pranzo (lunch) and I am running a little late...that part

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This weekend I am going to Firenze to hang out with Andrea Licavoli (old MSU friend) and then together we are going to Cinque Terre to return here Monday! I will post more next week. Ciao amici!

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I love your posted comments! Its so nice to read them and feel a connection. Please note all friends who are reading this, I think I set up this blog so that you can post comments even without a blog site of your own...post it as "anonymous". I will write more later; for now I will try to upload photos.L

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It is very amusing that from this internet station near the top of montepulciano, even this blogsite has everything in Italian. So "crea" (create)is because this is the web button I puched to write this and because I guess my most prominent purpose here italy is to learn and create ancient Etruscan/italian style pottery. This is still going well although today I nearly cried with frustration at

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The first small hitch on my way to Italy--not so small really, but I am hoping it will not get any bigger was the discovery that my name was mispelled on my passport. The American check-in person, with a sigh, let me through to my plane. Somehow, (God's grace) no one noticed in 2001 when I travelled to nicaragua and back. I am certain the prayers of friends and family also carried me safely

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In less than twenty-four hours, if all goes well, I will be sitting in a plane on my way to Italy. Hopefully there will be none of the "flunging" mentioned in my subject heading. I am hoping that there will be some interesting stories and photos that I can share here. Can't gaurantee that this will be a regular posting because, among other uncertainties, I don't know what my internet access

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