Our last trip out of the country was back in May, when we explored northern Portugal. Some, um, issues arose after that trip, preventing further travel; we didn't even make it to Buenos Aires in August, for the second year in a row. But those issues are now resolved and we are ready to once again fly way up in the air, heading to Italy for the tenth time. Have I mentioned that we like Italy?
Our ninth trip to Italy was in December 2011, when we visited new places and old favorites in the Veneto and Emilia-Romagna. This time we'll fly into and out of Bologna, a regional hub with convenient connections to Madrid.
We're looking forward to seeing our friends Cinzi e Sergio in Bologna, where we'll spend the first few days. After that, we'll be retracing some of our earliest trips: several days each in Florence, Siena, and Arezzo. I'm excited just thinking about it: tagliatelle alla bolognese anywhere within a kilometer or two of Piazza Maggiore, bistecca alla fiorentina at Buca dell'Orafo in Firenze, risotto at Il Biondo in Siena, the fabulous Piero della Francesca frescoes in Arezzo, maybe even a quick side trip to Sansepolcro. And since it's the holiday shopping season, there will be lots of open markets to make the evening passeggiata especially enjoyable.
While we head off to the airport, you can read about my first trip to Italy, on our honeymoon in 1999.
And no blog post would be complete without a picture. In 2005, I happened to catch the light of the setting sun on the Florence Duomo using an antiquated photographic medium called 'film':
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