After five weeks of straight sunshine, a cloud bank settled in over Levanto this morning, and we have had our first gray day in ages. No complaints, though – after all, the seasons and rhythms of the sun are as important for us as they are for any other animal, […]
The Sea
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Last night, our typically Ligurian shutters started banging about, heralding the arrival of a change in weather. September and now October have been amazingly warm and beautiful, with hardly a drop of rain, but we knew it couldn’t last. The wind was bringing Autumn in. Or so I thought. For […]
My grandfather, whose nickname was Fish, had his origins in a fishing village in Norway and spent much of his free time on the waters of Lake Michigan near Charlevoix. Two of his brothers moved East and worked the fleet out of Gloucester, Mass. My father is an avid fisherman […]
Here in Levanto, the summer tourist season is tailing off (though the weather is still quite summery) and people are gearing up for the next big event: the ASP World Tour Longboard Competition, the first international surfing event ever held in Italy. I’ve tried surfing twice in my life, once here […]
I was not born a real water lover, mostly due to the fact that I can’t float and I get cold immediately. When my first daughter was going through infant water training I used to wear a thermal shirt in the pool, despite the fact that the pool temperature was […]