The Year of Living Sabbatically, Part 2: 2024 Italia!
Life with Professore: Year of Living Sabbatically, Part 2 Follow Our Voyages on Polarsteps: https://www.polarsteps.com/TessAndThomasOnSabbatical/14205860-the-year-of-living-sabbatically-part-2 Italia! Waking up to the sound of church bells. Near our Tuscan palazzo they ring at 7:00am, as they did near our guest house in Riomaggiore; in Venezia, outside our window at 7:30am. No need for an alarm clock. I soon started telling time according to the number church bell chimes. Been eating cheese. Lots of cheese. And I don’t like cheese. I frequently find it, well, offensive. Stinky. Here, it’s somehow not. But it is delicious. Been eating pasta. Several times a week, like at Nanny’s house on Greenport Road ages ago when it was still called macaroni. Pasta was banished from my diet when I started seriously caring about my weight in the early 1980’s: too many empty carbs....