After a few hours of prepping, we finally sat down to eat on a HUGE table on Linda and Tonino's outdoor patio. (Linda is the woman standing and wearing a black shirt.)
Days 26-29: The Final Push and Overeating (June 8-11) June 8th 2009 It was another one of those crazy weeks. I cannot believe how fast the semester just flew by! My week began by making my third round-trip in four days to Castelfranco Veneto train station, where my dad would embark on his return journey. I offered to get him a cab. But he didn’t like the idea of a €90 cab fare. Instead he would take the train to Venice-Mestre (less than €4) and a bus from Me ... read more
Europe » Italy » Veneto » Paderno del Grappa 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
I am an assistant professor in the Communication Studies Department at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After getting bitten by the travel bug in 2009 (when I taught I taught for the CIMBA program in northern Italy), I've been itching to see more of the big, beautiful world. In 2010, I jumped at the chance to be a faculty associate in UNL's Pan Pacific Study Abroad Tour sponsored by the College of Business Administration here at UNL. My travels took me to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia. But the Red Shirt protests cut our time in Thailand short, so I am headed back this summer to ... full info