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Recovering attorney, lover of freedom and Justice. Florida escapee, part-time Italian. So tired of snark and meanness. All photos are my own. Or my husband’s. Or my mom’s. #photography #umbria #travel #wanderlust
Super happy older woman experiencing bliss.

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This weekend marks one of the most special events in , the Infiorite di Spello. The streets are filled with art made from fresh flowers. 1/2

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Some of the memorable carpets we saw at the Infiorite di Spello the year that we went. Many, but not all, have religious themes. The young girl shown beside her work won recognition in the 14 and under category. The piece with the crocodiles was just a part of a very long whimsical Noah's Ark carpet. 2/2

A young girl sits beside a large floral carpet with religious imagery. People are seen on the street walking along the side of the carpet.
Two whimsical crocodiles are seen going into Noah's Ark. This piece of floral carpet is made of different shades of green, blue and brown.

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@Deus Very interesting!

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Walking around Perugia with my mom, we spotted these really sweet DIY flower displays lining the better part of a little back street. June 2014

Large tomato sauce cans are repurposed into flower containers and hung on iron reinforcement grates against a brick wall. This section of the display is against a small protrusion of a wall. To the right of the display, the ancient street is seen with a motorcycle parked in the distance.
Large tomato sauce cans are repurposed into flower containers and hung on iron reinforcement grates against a brick wall. The cans are painted sky blue with white accents suggesting clouds and filled with spring flowers. This view is closer up to show the way the cans are mounted with s-hooks.

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Good morning from Pantelleria! I managed to catch the sunrise for .

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More overcast weather this week in Pantelleria.

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Korčula, Croatia. September, 2022

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Horses roam the hills around the Piano Grande of Castelluccio di Norcia very early one morning in May, 2005.

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Happy ! Once upon a time, most of our travel was work-related. As we were winding down our law practice, my RFL and I tried to make work trips fun by adding extra days and traveling together. It was a nice change from years of one-day turnarounds, or nights spent alone in hotel rooms. We met this little cutie on one such trip to Chestertown, MA, in May of 2008.

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@kwheaton @gardening Glorious!

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Gee, it doesn’t look that damaged from the outside. 🥹 But I guess our poor house is showing her age and the results of a couple hundred years’ worth of earthquakes (and for the central part, at least, for longer than that), so it needs a lot of TLC from the inside out.

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We finally made it back to to survey the earthquake damage and meet with the people who will fix it. Of all the thinks broken cracked and smashed, this hurts the most. It belonged to my grandmother. I think she bought it at the World's Fair in the 20s. She wanted me to have it and it is one of those things that has defined "home" for me. My husband has complained about it for 30 years, but has promised to get it fixed. Our helper was afraid tell me about it, sweet guy.

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- part 11. We had heard that Croatia had good wines, and decided to tour the wine regions. It didn’t take long before we were disabused of the notion that Croatia’s wine country would be anything like Italy’s Chianti Road. This was before iPhones, so we were relying on a printed version of directions we downloaded from Google Maps. More than once I just threw up my hands when the directions said “Go straight for 43.3 km. Turn left.” That’s all. Turn left.

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- part 12 In a happy confluence of (in the US) and (where I am) we reach one of my favorite days in our Croatian adventure: the day we returned to Rastoke Slunj and spent the day at National Park Plitvicka Jezera. The heat finally broke, and I was as happy as I’d ever been in my life. One of my top ten travel days ever. In Rastoke, a creek flowed under our apartment, giving a lovely breeze all night. Just heaven.

A couple sits under a tree beside a still green lake.
An old mill among thick green foliage. Water flows under the mill house, creating a waterfall spilling into a creek.

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- part 13. Day 30 of our odyssey found us in the scenic mountains of northern Croatia, in a serene meadow near the quaint village of Sunger, with the promise of fall in the air. We had learned exactly 5 words of Croatian, what we call the magic words: please, thank you, good morning, good day, and cheers! When we walked through town, we gave a big "dobar dan" to all the little old ladies on their porches or in their yards, just to see their faces light up.

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- part 14. After bouncing around the interior of Croatia, your intrepid travelers decided to take a beat and rent a house in Istria for the month of September. Istria is a county in Croatia that is so close to Italy we could almost taste it, not surprisingly since it was historically part of the Republic of Venice. We found ourselves in the tiny hamlet of Smoljanci, which I’m pretty sure is Croatian for Hooverville.

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- part 15. Imagine growing up in a place where it is normal to practice soccer after school in the shadow of a 500-year old castle on a green that used to be the castle moat. Svetvincenat was the closest “big town” during our month in Istria. September 2012.

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- part 16. During our month in Istria, we never knew what the day would bring. We came to learn that Saturdays meant weddings. We went to the little beach town of Fazana for a sunset stroll and dinner, and caught this couple parading through the center of the town with their whole entourage to the water's edge. We then watched as they gathered on a rock jetty and drank champagne while they waited for the sun to set.

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- part 17.
Gelato: $3
Gas: $5
Catching twilight in Rovinj: priceless

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- part 18. The best part about our month in Istria was the easy access to the rest of the peninsula. Within a half hour, we could reach two beautiful harbor towns, Rovinj and Pula, a peaceful fjord, and a smaller fishing village, Fazana. A little further up the road to the north was another historical harbor town, Poreč (formerly known as Parentium - how cool is that?), and picturesque ancient hill towns of the interior.

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- part 19. While we were in Croatia, our running joke was the absence of vowels. This was the next little town down from our house in Istria. Every time I saw this sign I thought: "Hmm, I wonder if Ms Pggj’s home?" I crack myself up.

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- part 20. At day 60 of our Magical Mystery Tour, we left Istria to return to Croatia’s mainland, and it just kept getting better. We took the ferry over to the islands of Kres-Losinj and enjoyed perhaps the most dramatically beautiful coastal drive I'd ever seen. (Well, when I didn't have my eyes squeezed shut, that is!) Mali Losinj is a fishing village which combined medieval cobblestone streets with a laid-back Keys feeling.

A view of the town from the harbor at twilight. Pastel colored buildings are lit up, and the lights and buildings are reflected in the water between moored boats. The town rises on a gentle hill and a lighted church spire is seen at the top of the town.

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- part 21. We spent 9 days exploring the clear, clean water of Mljet Island’s two interior lakes, thick forests, and heartbreakingly beautiful views. The western end of the island is a national park which contains about five little villages, each more quaint than the next. We stayed in one of the apartments rented out by islanders which offered home-cooked meals from the abundant local seafood, caught that day.

A view between pine trees of a very calm lake, with clear water. The shit is taken in the shade, but the blue of the lake is illuminated by the sun. There is a small wooden bench in the shore in the shade. Woods are seen across the lake.
A peaceful cove, with mountains in the background. There are houses and small boats on the shore in the right of the frame. The water is very still and very blue.

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- part 22. It is a miracle that we ever heard about Mljet. The owner of our favorite beach bar in Split recommended it as his favorite place to travel in Croatia. We would never have made it if we had listened to that guy with two first names who said: "Many Croatians rave about Mljet. Take it with a grain of salt." He calls the park "overrated," and suggests that "one day is plenty for Mljet." That guy’s an idiot.

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