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Florentine Acrobatics?

Scaffolding is pretty common here in Florence….it’s the only way to work on all these ancient buildings lined up next to each other on narrow city streets….but there’s a new guy in town.  Edilizi Acrobatica.  This company now has 11 branches in Tuscany (2 of which are in Florence) and I think they are on […]

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Lockdown Thoughts……A diary entry with today’s date (but written 25 years ago!)

In 1995 we spent July and August in Italy…..in Montecchio, a small  town on the Adriatic side of the country.  We were living with my cousin and his family and we had signed up for italian classes at the Language Institute in Urbino (a really beautiful walled city).  The daily grind of classes and the […]

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