When Nina and I travel together, I walk around a lot by myself. Today I decided to get out to la campagna. This is no easy matter when you start in the heart of Arezzo. Like many old European cities, Arezzo has expanded well beyond its walls and is surrounded on [...]
My Italian is still really bad, but I generally manage. The Italians I talk to don’t seem to mind how badly I mangle their language. Maybe those who have to listen to me ask for something have a laugh riot after I’m gone; that I can’t know. I’ve learned to lace my primarily noun-based Italian [...]
I’m not sure why Arezzo isn’t more of a tourist destination, but I’m not complaining. It’s a very nice city. Although its population is about 90,000, the old city is compact and walkable, if you don’t mind some steep climbs.
If you enter on the side of town where the rail station is, [...]
A few years ago I was excited at the prospect that OpenOffice would by my office suite of choice, but I ran into two significant problems.
I didn’t like using it as much as I liked using Microsoft Office. I was reluctant to admit it to myself, but I finally had to.
The version [...]
