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The cheese saga finale: Did the pecorino pass?

Posted in Amalfi coast, Carl, Cheese, Codispoti, Customs, Daniela, Dino, Driving, Frine, Geneaology, Isca, Marina, Nanny, Nino, Pecoraro, Poppy, Rome, Sant'Andrea, Serra San Bruno, Uncle Al, Uncle Angelo, Uncle Bruno, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I can’t tell you whether we got the cheese into the country. We may have simply shipped it over. We may have left it for Dino and the family. We may have even left it for Nino’s consumption.
I CAN share a could-have-happened, might-have-happened, would-have-been-nice fictional story that the U.S. Customs office would probably object to [...]

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Toto

Posted in Daniela, tagged , on November 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I ran out of DVD space before I could get to Toto, the man who talks to God.
Toto was in a truck accident years back and is missing many of his teeth. The accident also left him missing a couple screws.
On sunny days, Toto can be found staring straight into the sun, praying to God [...]

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She makes it look easy

Posted in Carl, Daniela, Uncle Bruno, tagged , , on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Like in most towns in the area, Sant’Andrea’s cobblestone streets are tight, to say the least. The vast majority aren’t wide enough to fit two Matchbox-sized cars at a time, making driving for newbies a heart-pumping challenge.
Even hairier, there is a one-way path — a six-foot-wide alley, really — that’s used [...]

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We made it to Rome!

Posted in Carl, Cheese, Daniela, Dino, Rome, Uncle Bruno, tagged , , , , , , , on November 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »

We’re in a hotel about 2 blocks away from Rome — we got in at around 11 last night after about 10 hours on the road [again]. Sant’Andrea was simply amazing. I put virtually all of the pictures from the town on the lap top I borrowed from Jackie, so here are a few I [...]

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