Blog posts from previous years

We’d want to keep in touch with family and friends while we are spending a time in Italy. This blog will record some of the interesting things that we’ve done and some of the things we’ve discovered. It’ll be especially interesting for us to be able to share the photos that we’ve taken.

By the way, we’ve kept blogs in previous years. If you’d like to see posts from our blogs in previous years, select a link from the list below.


Postcards from Italy 2011
Some sample posts from 2011
The Days of Wine and Vino Sfuso
Protests on March 8, La Festa delle Donne
A Haircut With Gigi
Department of Wry Public Art

Postcards from Italy 2012
Some sample posts from 2012
Our friend, the weaver
Watching the games
La Porta
San Martino in Pensilis, continued
Missanello

Postcards from Italy 2014
Some sample posts from 2014
Lunch at the alimentari in Lucignano d’Asso
Fruits and vegetable stands at Mercato Sant’Ambrogio includes a quiz
How do you paint the Ponte Vecchio?

Postcards from Italy 2015
Some sample posts from 2015
Why leave Syracuse?
Teatro della Pergola
Two seemingly unrelated items and a photo
In the Maremma

Postcards from Italy 2016
Some sample posts from 2016
Views from the window of our plane
Music in Florence
Castello di Semivicoli and Masciarelli wines

Postcards from Italy 2017
Some sample posts from 2017
Humor
The Great Cathedral Mystery


and this year's blog  >>  Postcards from Italy 2018

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