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Buone Feste a Tutti!

Monday, December 18th, 2006

At Home in Rome is going on a holiday hiatus, so see you next year!
Thanks for making my new experiment in blogging this year such a delightful success, and grazie for sharing in my adventures and observations. I’m sure that 2007 will provide us with many more of these “behind the scenes in Rome” […]

Crib Street

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

Let one thing be said for Italy at Christmastime: these people love their nativity scenes. So much so that I would go as far as to say that a nativity scene, known in Italian as presepe and sometimes by the French word crèche, is more common than a Christmas tree in many Italian homes.
The […]

C’è Posta Per Me!

Friday, December 15th, 2006

That means “I’ve Got Mail!”
Yes folks, my first of two City Swap packages arrived today. So excited! I don’t have a lot of faith in the Italian postal system, although I really have only had one little “episode”: a package where someone ate one Godiva chocolate from a mini box and left the other […]

Ten Things I’ll Never Understand About Rome

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

If you’ve been reading my blog for a little while, then you’ve probably noticed that my observations often tend to be of the curious, “why?” type. I can’t help it. When I see certain things here, I am always asking myself this question and trying to uncover the answer.
Nine times out of ten, with […]

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