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 […]
Monthly Archives: September 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, […]