This morning, the first when both my girls went to school, and therefore the first morning in five years that my wife and I did not have children at our heels, I stopped at the Barolino Café in downtown Levanto for a cappuccino while my wife handled other affairs. The […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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Last night (Saturday), we were out for dinner with a bunch of other families from our older daughter’s nursery school class celebrated the impending beginning of the school year tomorrow. Downtown Levanto was hopping with people even in late September. Restaurants were full, bars were doing brisk business, the weather […]
The Festival of San Matteo (otherwise known as Saint Matthew) is on today in the minuscule but ever-charming vilage of Le Ghiare just outside of Levanto. This being our first year in Le Ghiare, I don’t know what to expect, but they’ve been cleaning out the church since yesterday. At […]
Oh, but I was forgetting … for those of you who aren’t quite ready to give up completely on the summer, there’s one final beach party scheduled for Saturday night (September 21) on the Levanto beach.
Perhaps it was for the onslaught of house guests, perhaps for the onslaught of tourists, perhaps for nothing more than the hot sun calling me to the beach, but it has been ages since I wrote anything on this blog. And now it is late summer in Levanto (in truth, […]
I remember when I was in Moscow for a few days in 1993 I stumbled across the Moscow International Film Festival. While in those days Moscow was not exactly the hip international destination (I recall very few limos and stars), the Soviet film industry had been exceedingly important to world […]
Despite its zen-sounding name, SenSuoSa is a more down-to-earth event happening tomorrow June 21st in Levanto, though not one without its spiritual side as well. Taking advantage of the summer solstice, all interested parties will be meeting in the central Piazza Cavour of Levanto at 6pm to take a leisurely […]
I have to admit that the reality of closing in on age 40, combined with the fact of having two daughters under age 5, makes it very unlikely that I will take advantage of the following event in Levanto, but that doesn’t mean that y’all shouldn’t get out there and […]
Ligurians do not have the reputation of being the most affable of people, and they certainly don’t win any awards for chattiness. I would say that in general, Levanto lives up to this generalization, though I think it’s important to recognize that this lack of sociability does not mean that […]
When we moved into our new home in the village of Le Ghiare outside Levanto, we inherited a water pump. All our new neighbors were complimentary about our luck to have said device for the following reason: with that pump you can water your entire garden without paying for municipal […]