mercoledì 23 marzo 2011

Italy: 150 years

Ok, we know that since Valeria opened her Facebook account this blog is almost empty!
By the way let me post some pics of the last weekend. We had some holidays to celebrate the first 150 years of United Italy... yes guys, only 150! Who is the young country now, 235 years old United States!?!?


One of the main street of Padova
(what you see if Caffè Pedrocchi, which second floor is (neo)gothic (1839). It is not the 12th century gothic but neither the 1932 fake-gothic of the Duke Chapel!! ;) )


Hiking on Colli Euganei (Euganean Hills)

lunedì 28 febbraio 2011

Happy Birthday Tony!!!

We celebrated Antonio's birthday with an American-style brunch: biscuits, egg, bacon, cheese, pan cakes with corn syrup, american coffee, apple and orange juices, muffins and apple pie!!!

mercoledì 12 gennaio 2011

Back to Padova!

This blog is one year old and it's time to change something! What about the language? Yep, that's not a bad idea! This blog was meant (also) to let our (italian) friends to know what we were doing on the other side of the ocean in the wonderful Durham!

And so it is now. We still want to update our friends on what we are doing "on the other side of the ocean"... on this side: Europe, Italy, Padova! So dear friends living in Durham, here we start to write (also/only/sometimes) in English! Feel free to leave a comment if you like (or don't) our blog!

Coming back was kind of tiring with a lot of things to fix, but its getting better! We enjoyed what we missed most in the young America: our historical downtowns. For the new year eve, in fact, some friends met in Durham in the early months came to see us and we spent few days around the Venetian area: venice with her "calli" and "bacari", Padova with her markets, medieval roads, squares and the 789 year old university, Bassano and his grappa, the walls of Cittadella and Stra' with the Wonderful villa Pisani. Everything accompained with you can only imagine what kind of amazing (real) italian dishes!




lunedì 6 dicembre 2010

Neve in North Carolina?!

Sabato ad ora di pranzo e' cominciato a nevicare! E sabato verso le 6pm i nostri alter-ego di neve hanno preso forma...