Archivio per Maggio 2016

Favoring our felines with EU pet passports

Favoring our felines with EU pet passports By DON LINDLEY Before arriving in Italy, we’d read that it would take three days to obtain European Union pet passports that would allow our two cats to travel with us hassle-free around our adopted home country and most of the rest of Europe. We should have known…

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Trulli touring in Alberobello

Trulli touring in Alberobello By PAMELA HASTEROK with photos by DON LINDLEY The main street of Alberobello looks like something out of Grimms’ “Fairy Tales.” When we first saw its trulli on a gray January day, I expected hunched gnomes in Transylvanian gear to emerge from the hundreds of squat, conical roofed buildings lining Monti…

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Blundering into a festa in Trani

The festa (celebration) commemorates the miracle of 1480, when Saracens attacked the ancient port town of Trani.

Blundering into a festa in Trani By PAMELA HASTEROK with photos by DON LINDLEY We arrived in Trani on an everyday Tuesday to find Jesus being ferried around the harbor, a marching band playing loudly and clergymen and city leaders in brightly colored robes ready to receive the holy icon on land. We had blundered…

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