I am getting into a routine here in Paderno: waking early, eating breakfast at the cafeteria, doing final preparations for my class, teaching until siesta, going hungry during siesta (because everything is closed), eating after siesta (when everything opens again), chatting with my colleagues, exploring travel options, and heading home to unwind and write for my blog. Today I threw in a little twist. While recharging my camera batteries, I must have fried the battery charger somehow. I knew I could find a battery charger at Familia in Fonte (for €20). And I knew the same store also carried irons. (I need one of those, too, as there is no such thing as “tumble dry” in northern Italy. They believe in washers, but not dryers.) But I remembered irons being quite expensive there (about €30, maybe
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