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Groceries
Took my long walk to the grocery store today, up along Corso San Gottardo, where the little specialty shops are, as well as a few "bigger" stores. The grocery store has a good variety and good...
“Imperiale”, an Understatement
Dinner at Il Giardino del Naviglio (Garden restaurant, near the Naviglio Pavese canal). When our server brought this platter and set it in front of me, placing another one on the other side of the...
Fourplex Postings
Mount a poster and you've got public notice. Mount 2 or 4 together and it becomes art. The repetition of one image creates a pattern perhaps unintended by the original designer, but SO effective by...
Dream
I have been dreaming... and I am! This poster had my name all over it… and the names of all my family and friends!
Ozmo
The "street art" - the graffiti and murals - around here keeps my fingers clicking. And I find imagery around any corner, behind, under and on top of other things. The back sides of billboards. The...
A Phone in Italian
There's nothing like buying a new cell phone, in Italy. Just shopping for one was hard enough without a language in common with the sales person. Now I've bought one and the manual is in Italian and...
Language and Shopping
The most complicated thing I've (tried to) shop for is an Italian cell phone. It'd be easy to simply get any old cheap phone, just something that'll make and take calls, and do SMS... But I'm a tech...
Cimitero Monumentale
Milano's Cimitero Monumentale - Monumental Cemetery - is beyond words. It rivals many museums of architecture and sculpture and offers a lesson one could spend years studying. The architectural...
Sunday Sounds
The 10-foot high French doors are wide open. (Are they called "Italian doors" since we're in Italy?) We had a long, strong rain last night and the air is cool. The sky is blue. Someone in an...