I have an insurmountable love for ULMLS for a number of reasons – one of those being my beloved Languages Family. Yes when you look at the Family Tree is does get a little complicated, and at the ripe old age of 21 I’m a Grandmother and soon-to-be Great Grandmother when the newbies arrive next […]
Monterosso al Mare
In the early days of Padova, I joined ESN Italia, which is the Italy-wide Erasmus network that also works in countries all across Europe. They organise events, trips and the like throughout the year and until this point I had never signed up for anything (apart from our ice-skating adventure, but I think that was […]
Italian departments at Universities are always pretty small – cosy, shall we say. One of the upsides of this is that all your non-Italian friends (aka the Spaniards or the solo Frenchies) are more than willing to come visit you in the land of pasta. Unfortunately it hasn’t quite happened yet, although I have a good […]
It’s been a little hectic around here (definitely not part of the Italian lifestyle but I think you have to make exceptions when you’re Erasmus) because it’s been non-stop with daytrips, meals and drinks. (And University… I forgot that one.) On Sunday, I went to Trieste with Lucy, Claire, Laura and Sergio. Trieste is a […]
The last few weeks the weather has bit a little ‘pazzo’ in the Veneto, one day blue skies and burning heat, the next endless rain and a thunder storm to make Thor proud. Earlier in the week we had planned a daytrip to Bologna. Of course, the weather had other plans – thunderstorms and heavy […]
I just really like this photo – how can you go wrong when there are pretzels this big in the world?
Given that Québec is a fair distance away (and maybe the minus temperatures and meters of snow also had something to do with it) I didn’t get visitors in Canada last semester. This time round though, there’s no excuse – Venice is only a 2 hour flight from Gatwick, hardly a trek, so from the […]
Another weekend. another day trip. The Veneto region seems to have an unusually large number of cities beginning with ‘V’, and the latest Tourist-Trek was to Verona, which was actually my second choice of Uni in Italy (Padova only came in third and I thank my lucky stars that it turned out the way it […]
Una coppetta con Biscotti della Nonna e Croccante della Nonna (Technically I’ve posted a photo from Gelato Romana before, but this one was too good not to share.)
The Gelato Diaries 