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"This will be my 8th trip to Italy. " - I am about to take my own 8th trip to Italy wih my 16 year old son, Alessandro.
Your new pic of you in Venice is great. Well done!
Looking at your entry on Bologna - makes me have thoughts about putting our luggage somewhere and taking Alessandro to have a look at Bologna on our way from Modena to Florence. I have been there a couple of times, and my oldest son and I were talking about it last night. He was there with his father six years ago.
Yes, I will look into that today, thank you for inspiring the thought.
Oh, and I may have said so before, but I just LOVE the look of this website. To me, the look of it, the presentation, is so important. When I like the initial look, I just want to continue reading and come back to it more often. This one is so attractive. :)

Thanks so much Leslie! I set up my blog about a week before leaving for Italy and it also was during my last week of school. You know how crazy that can be! I didn't have much time to choose a style for my blog, and so I just chose the purple one since purple is my favorite color. I never really "loved" that style as it didn't fit for my blog. A couple of weeks ago, I spent about 2 hours trying out all the new blog styles. When I stumbled on this one, I knew immediately that it would be perfect.
WOW 8 trips for you too! How exciting to be able to share your love of Italy with your son! Bologna is a beautiful town...and the food!!! YUM! I love that region. My quick stop there this year has inspired me to return to spend more time there on my next trip.

Hi
We are just back from Venice - and by pure chance I made pics of Magi's appearance
- I did not know that they were restored as well - and did not realised that they appear only twice a year - otherwise we would stay there for the rest of the day and make poper pictures, but stupidly we assumed that we can do it next day as well
Being Jewish from Russia and living in Scotland, where you know about Xmas because of shopping crowd, I had no clue that it was Epiphany Day. We could miss it all together, which would be real pity, as we are extremely interested in the clock with figures - you will understand why if you visit our website.
I have posted my pics on the Flickr.com
Because of the same ignorance we did not realise that one have to book a tour of the Clock tower in advance. I love your pics - but they are so small! Could you please send us - or post on Flicr - bigger files of the pics you made during your tour
All the best
Tatyana

Sorry, forget to add URL for my pics on Flickr:
flickr dot com backslash photos backslash 17458814 at N05

Tatyana,

How lucky to see the Angel and the three Kings! Thanks for the comment on my pictures. I have intended to post my pictures from this past summer's trip on the Slow Travel (photo page) but have not had a chance yet. This blog only lets me post them at the 450 size of part of the picture gets cut off. I will try to get to it soon. My photos from some of my other trips are there though.

I love your Venice photos!!
(I wrote your flicker
url out as I have read that posting a url website in the comments section attracts tons of spam. I am not a fan of spam)

Totally amazing, Suze! Really loved your blog. Apologies for taking forever to get here, but it's the first blog I've ever checked out.... surely they're not all this good, are they? I thought they just were loaded with boring personal drivel that went on and on like yadda, yadda, yadda. Spent quite a bunch of time, and checked out a lot of stuffs. Looked through much of your gallery and had to check out Toilets/showers & bidets, of course. You're such a great photographer.. and I always loved your food shots.

Guess I picked a great time to check it out with your centipede story right up front and center. I can just see you and imagine how upsetting it must have been. I haven't seen one for ages, and that's just fine with me.

Will be sure to check in now and then, hana hou!! No wonder you don't have time to join us at FECC.
e-huggs,
Aunty P