On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:18:52 -0400, "Edwin Pawlowski" <esp@snet.net>
wrote:

>
>"Joe E. Bushy" <kc1z9wp02@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> Ah, Siena. My wife and I nibbled cantucci and sipped vin santo while
>> watching
>> a huge full moon rise over the Piazza del Campo one fine September evening
>> not
>> that many years ago. The dollar was still strong, the food was
>> stupefyingly
>> good, the wine was exceptional ... my wife said, "You know we need to live
>> here ..."
>>
>> We've been back once since then. I decided that she was right.
>>
>> -- Bushy
>
>Siena is one of my favorites too. My wife would like to move to some place
>in Italy also. Our preference is on a hillside. There are many hillsides
>so we'd have thousands of places to choose from. A few years aback, real
>estate was reasonable there but I think the popularity has forced it up.
>
>When we stayed in Rosano, the house we rented was built in the 1100's. In
>all of that time it had three different owners. Well, three different
>families as it was passed down over the generations. .

Wow, 1100. Being from Hawaii, my brain loves the fact that Hawaiians
got here about the same time- about 1000 AD and the culture *Hawaii
vs. Italy is/was so vastly different. Unbelievable.

Oh I have a fantasy of living in Italy too:):):). DH will never leave
Hawaii, so I can have a fantasy like that, and some days while picking
coffee for hours, I let my brain dream of what it would be like.

Thanks for the fun.

aloha,
Cea
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