Waiting chairs

in the great hall.

April 29th 2007
We’ve had a couple of rainy weekends that discouraged us from going anywhere. It is hard to want to walk around when it is either pouring or drizzling; those days are best spent lounging about watching a movie. The weather has finally begun to improve and it was a beautiful sunny day on Saturday so we thought we would go on another daytrip. We decided to go visit Gioia del Colle. This means “ ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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Israel Espinoza

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I was sitting in an Irish pub and the crowd was doing singalongs. A friendly chap asked me to stand up and sing and I hesitated. He said to me, "If you don't sing you'll never be one of us. You'll always be just a tourist." So I sang. I travel to meet the locals and go to the places they hang out for dining, drinking, and fun. I go to be more than just a tourist. Who wants to be treated as "just a tourist?" It is a hell of a lot fun to be more than just that. In the words of my hero, Anthony Bourdain: "Be a traveller, not a tourist." ... full info

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