Erin Miller

It doesn’t snow in Sicily. This Thursday it was snowing in Perugia (AGAIN) so we left and went to Sicily. We got on the bus to the train station knowing only the time our train left for Filigno, to go on to Rome, and then to Milazzo, a port town in the north of Italy. [...]

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We had our Italian friends over for dinner last week. We made them a five-course dinner in an attempt to repay them for the five-course, five hour dinner they cooked us a few weeks ago. It took me a full week of wandering the city to find all of the necessary ingredients for chocolate chip [...]

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My hands are red and swollen. A bank sign blinks a red -14˚, as if it is trying to rub it in. How cold is negative fourteen degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit? It’s really cold. I have gloves in my pack, but somehow it didn’t occur to me that I would want them en route and [...]

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Ciao, Here is your weekly update from Perugia. The train strike did happen and travel came to a complete halt all over Italy. Teachers cut their classes short in order to get back to their homes in Florence etc. before the strike began. Friday felt like a holiday. The labor unions had planned a 24 [...]

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The big adventure for this week was a trip to Venice for the biggest party in the world, Carnevale! Carnevale is Mardi Gras Italian style and Venice is the New Orleans of Western Europe. Venice is an amazing city, the canals and gondolas add a distinct charm to the place, though they also seem to [...]

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Buona Sera! Italians say buon giorno (good day) until about 6 in the evening when it becomes buona sera (good evening) it remains good evening until midnight or 1 am when it changes to buona notte (good night). The entire day is shifted later here. People finish dinner around 11, families perhaps closer to 9 [...]

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