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January 25, 2015
Italy – Day Six – Venice – Tastes and Tours
Hotel Junior, where we stayed in Padua, was the only hotel to actually provide breakfast (regardless of the ones who offered, even at an extra cost). Breakfast is served from 8-9:30 daily and consists of rolls with butter, cheese, jam and Nutella along with a cup of coffee and/or juice. Sunday morning we got to […]
January 24, 2015
Italy – Day Five – Venice – Not like Vegas, Baby!
Checking out of our hotel, the Arcoveggio, was easy. They were the only ones who actually took the credit card from Booking.com to cover the room (we still had to fork over the room fee, which I paid in cash but probably could have put on the card) and our walk to to the train […]
January 23, 2015
Italy – Day Four – Modena/Marenello – The Prancing Horse!
Our first full day in Bologna wasn’t spent in Bologna nearly at all. Instead we were going to be taking a little excursion to Modena and Maranello. For Rasa, these were the places to be excited about. While she certainly enjoyed where we’d been, today was all about her passion: Formula 1 racing.�� Marenello is […]
January 22, 2015
Italy – Day Three – Florence is hungry!
Waking up in Florence, in our private B&B, was a weird experience. We knew we wanted to make the most of the day (we’d planed our route the night before) so again we got up early (not as early as yesterday, however, we learnt from that mistake) and showered and packed all without seeing another […]
January 21, 2015
Review: Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Publishing
Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Publishing by Dean Wesley Smith My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars If there’s only one thing to take away from this book it’s that Dean Wesley Smith has traditionally published over 100 novels. Seriously. He tells us this repeatedly in order to prove his bonafides. This makes sense […]
Italy – Day Two – Genoa and Pisa – Rain drops all fall at the same speed…
Our plan was to see as much as we could in Italy, even if that meant not seeing things in great depth. To that end, our horrible experience in Hotel Valley would only last the one night and we would get up early to get to the train station and get down the coast to […]
January 20, 2015
Italy – Day One – Milan – The Last Supper and a late dinner
I knew I needed to get away for a few days in January. It’s not just the cold and the lack of sun, but they don’t help. I needed a routine break. At the end of September Monika had done a ten day train trip and something like that sounded good. I also wanted to […]
January 18, 2015
Aga – Boom (Boom Boom)
A few weeks ago, my friend Kevin contacted me on Facebook. A friend of his was a in a clown troupe who would be performing in Vilnius and might have need for a stage manager. So I contacted Kevin’s friend, who put my in touch with Iryna, one of the clowns and the partner��of Dimitri, […]
Review: What If (2013)
What if. What if you meet the person of your dreams but they’re already involved with someone else? What if you keep hanging around because having them in your life in any capacity is better than not having them at all? This is the premise of the film��What If��(originally titled The F Word)��starring��Daniel Radcliffe��as Wallace, […]
January 17, 2015
What Age Did Well-Known Authors Publish Their Most Famous Works? | ShortList Magazine
What Age Did Well-Known Authors Publish Their Most Famous Works? | ShortList Magazine. Just good to remember that not everyone gets success at the same time. And it’s never to late to make it big. In other words – you have to keep at it. Whatever it is you’re doing. I know what Mike Rowe […]
