Another update from Cortona, winter 2020-21. This shit is getting old.
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Category: Just…life.
Christmas, 2020
Saluti da Firenze
I needed to carry some documents to Florence on Thursday – it was the first time I had been on a train since the beginning of March, before the lockdown.
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l’abbazia di Farneta
On our way home after an ill-advised social engagement (who knew the virus would last so long, when we RSVPed earlier this year?) we stopped to do penance at one of the oldest Romanesque churches in all of the Aretine province.
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L’abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore
When the first major lockdown in Italy began to move into a gradual phased reopening, we made a hesitant excursion out of Cortona, to the nearby Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore in the Crete Senesi.
Saluti da Cortona, part II
Another update from Cortona under quarantine, late April – mid May.
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We’ve received dozens of messages from our friends and the UGA Cortona family, urgently asking for news about how this much-beloved city is faring in the time of the Coronavirus.
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I am a connoisseur of airports, and I recently discovered an excellent one: DTW, Detroit Metropolitan, with its sleek silent hypnotic oscillating elevated indoor tram, and this brilliant and soothing water feature in the McNamara Terminal.
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