10 reasons to go with Adventures in Italy including its fabulous teachers.
Archive for February, 2009
10 Reasons
Posted in Adventures in Italy Teachers, Learning Vacations, Orvieto Italy, Small group travel Italy on February 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Parmiggiano as Collateral
Posted in Orvieto Experiences, Orvieto Italy, Small group travel Italy on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Stolen cheese leads to thoughts on the joys of Italian cooking.
Missing in Action
Posted in Orvieto Italy on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yow! It has been over a week since I posted. Life takes over sometimes. We are planning to move to Morganton, NC, a small town in which we plan to capture some of the intimacy we find in Orvieto. Moving takes time and energy!
We traveled to Morganton last week to look at houses, found one [...]
Optimistic Italians
Posted in Meaning in Life, Orvieto Italy, Slow travel vacations, Small group travel Italy on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Americans are notably optimistic. Turns out Italians are even more so, at least according to one source. Italians also are resistant to change. This combination is one reason why travel to Italy is so interesting – particularly for Americans.
As an optimistic country, we Americans like optimism in others. We like to think things are good [...]
Culture, History, and Technology
Posted in Learning Vacations, Meaning in Life, Orvieto Italy, Technology on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been reading “Living in a Foreign Language.” It is about Italy, the life there versus the life in the U.S. It has got me thinking about why our Adventures in Italy trips are so meaningful to us, why we feel such sadness on returning to the U.S. It further has me thinking about [...]
Getting Personal
Posted in Meaning in Life, Orvieto Experiences, Orvieto Italy on February 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My good wife Kristi made an astute observation yesterday that gets to the heart of why we so enjoy Orvieto. Her comment was that we don’t go to stores to shop or do business, we go to see people we know. Nearly every store with which we interact is a family affair with just a [...]
Loving Italy
Posted in Learning Vacations, Living Slow, Meaning in Life on February 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I am reading “Living in A Foreign Language” by Michael Tucker. It is about his moving to an area near Spoletto in Umbria. In it, early on before he has actually made the move, he describes a lunch at an agriturismo near Spoletto.
What amazed me was that I could easily picture the scene. I could [...]
What’s Important?
Posted in Art instruction, Meaning in Life on February 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tending to our skills and talents in a time of economic downturn.
