Hello…My name is Janice and I’m a shopaholic!
February 14th, 2007 by Dining Diva JaniceA Shout-Out To All You Shopaholics! Insider’s Guide to the Best Shopping in Italy Now THIS is a tour that I would be happy to sign up for — An Insider’s Guide to the Best Shopping in Italy. I bet the savings from shopping the outlets and factories for your designer shoes, handbags and clothing would probably more than pay for the whole trip. (Although I wouldn’t necessarily use this theory when floating it by your husband… I doubt he would understand.) Check out the fall schedule for the latest offerings, which include a unique Tuscany Shop-about or another tour for first-timers that covers the big three: Milan, Florence, and Rome. Plus, you can sign up for the tour including air or on a land-only basis, if you want to put some of those frequent flier miles to good use. If you can’t answer “Yes” to the question in the picture… then you’ve been paying waaay to much!
February 15th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
PISA’S CAFÉ DELL’USSERO: A RENDEZVOUS FOR ARTISTS
In May 1845 John Ruskin prolonged his stay in Pisa in order to draw the early 15th -century Palazzo Agostini on the Lungarno, or river bank, of the Tuscan city. “There is nothing like it in Italy that I know of”, he said; and, writing to his father, he added: “They have knocked a great hole in the middle to put up a shield with a red lion and a yellow cock upon it for the sign of a consul, and they have knocked another at the bottom to put up a sign of a soldier riding a horse on two legs, with inscription All’Ussero Café.” The sign mentioned by Ruskin was short-lived, since it was thrown into the River Arno the following year by liberal students who could not even stand the sight of that Hussar.
Caffè dell’Ussero - Lungarno Pacinotti, 27 – Pisa (Italy)
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