San Quirico through the Side-View Window: When the Best-Laid Travel Plans Fail, Part 1

Home from Italy, enjoying my garden, sorting travel memories, and processing the experience of injuring my ankle on the second day of an intended week-long walk on the Via Francigena, Toscana. And wondering, “What’s Age got to do with It?” Click through to read more. . .

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Travel Highs and Lows and Keeping it Real

Sorry for the radio silence here, but perhaps you’ve been following my travels over on Instagram, a platform that is easier to use for quick updates while on the go and with limited data, Wifi…

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What to Wear When the Packing’s Done? A Few OOTDs

What I’m wearing lately, in this transitional weather between winter and spring, is in direct relation to our upcoming trip to Italy. Some favourite clothes are now off limits, packed for travel. And whatever I choose to wear right now has to work with a new and boldly coloured pair of trail runners that must be broken in before we head off to walk part of the Via Francigena….

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Via Francigena Prep, With Skunk Cabbage

I took grandkids and memories of my mother on my annual hunt for a favourite indigenous Spring-appearing bloom. Click through to see this year’s version of a recurring theme on the blog. Happy New Season!

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Walking, Listening, Remembering (Or: Icon, OOTD, Flowers of Hope)

Another post in my “Walking, Wearing Listening” series — and the podcast in my ears for this neighbourhood walk was about an amazing 92-year-old woman, a Holocaust survivor who is also an Italian Senator-for-life. I hope you’ll find as much inspiration as I did in her story.

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