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Month: November 2007

La Vida Firenze

Jordan Posted onNovember 28, 2007February 25, 2015 Leave a Comment

We’ve been living in Florence for just over a week now and are settling into the pleasant rhythms of our days. We’ve rented a spacious and warm two bedroom apartment in the heart of the city (right here on...

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Home, Sweet Florence

Jordan Posted onNovember 20, 2007February 25, 2015 Leave a Comment

I hope this doesn’t sound corny or anything, cuz it’s just true. Moments after we stepped off the train into Florence, we both immediately felt we had found the place we were looking for, somewhere we could settle down...

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Terme di Saturnia

Jordan Posted onNovember 20, 2007February 25, 2015 1 Comment

Best…Hot Springs…Ever! What’s usually wrong with hot springs? Lots! Par example: Crowded Pools to shallow, you have to contort yourself to actually submerge Water flow inadequate, stagnates with the slough of a hundred people’s acne and eczema Stench of...

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Tomba del Faggeto

Jordan Schwartz Posted onNovember 19, 2007February 25, 2015 Comments are off

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Gunfire popped in the trees around us and the clamor of the dog pack was clearly drawing closer. Ordinarily under such circumstances (if there are any ordinary circumstances that involve being caught in a cross fire), the thought...

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Olive Oyl

Jordan Posted onNovember 14, 2007 2 Comments

Picking olives, we thought, was a bit like milking a tree. You start by spreading a large mesh cloth beneath the tree on all sides. This is not the "like milking" part, this is just the "like picking olives"...

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Berlin

Jordan Posted onNovember 12, 2007February 25, 2015 Leave a Comment

Coming from the Spanishness of Barcelona, Berlin seemed so much like home that Michelle and I kept finding ourselves surprised that people weren’t speaking English. It was, it seemed, a very American city. Well, not in all ways. For...

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Rappin’ MACBA

Jordan Posted onNovember 7, 2007February 25, 2015 Leave a Comment

Mark and I came across a group of kids rapping and beatboxing in a circle in front of MACBA one night in Barcelona. It sounded awesome. Video: MACBA rapper

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The Dreaded Mullet

Jordan Posted onNovember 6, 2007February 12, 2015 4 Comments

Oddest fashion item from Barcelona: the dreadlock mullet. Mullets in general abound, sharp cropped and flat, shaggy and curly, but over and over we see it: long dreadlocks party in the back and a short, practical business crop in...

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Pintxos and tapas, oh yum!

Jordan Posted onNovember 5, 2007 Leave a Comment

Food in Barcelona has been a big step up from France, although we still rely heavily on bread and cheese as our staples (and, consequently, I may need to staple my stomach when I get home if things continue...

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Absinthe

Jordan Posted onNovember 3, 2007 1 Comment

Absinthe makes you crazy and criminal, provokes epilepsy and tuberculosis, and has killed thousands…It makes a ferocious beast of man, a martyr of woman, and a degenerate of the infant, it disorganizes and ruins the family… – Barnaby Conrad...

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