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A Wine Down in Roma

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For my last 48 hours I had to return to Roma, la cittá eterna of course.  My dear friend Livia is there right now as she gets ready to head up to Briancon again for the winter, and Rome might be the place in Europe that feels most like home. After a delayed flight Livia picked me up at abut 1:30 and we headed back to her mom’s place in Balduina to drop off my stuff.  Then we headed out on a lovely passagiata.  Livia is a master parker There is a walking and bike path that is close to Balduina that gives an amazing view of St. Peter’s and Vatican City.  We began by stopping at Alice for some pizza al taglio (yum) and suppli.  I can never remember the difference between suppli and aranciata but this one had risotto but carbonara flavored, which was amazing. Livia talked me into squash blossom and anchovies pizza, then we had mushroom, potato, and straciatella. It was all great, a little sampler in a pizza box for us.  Still don’t know...
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A Final Frolic in the Black Forest

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Our final chapter took us through the Black Forest which is found in the southwestern part of Germany.  Not sure why it is called the Black Forest but it has tons of hillside towns and towns in the flat areas of the region.  Because the land has so much topography, though, there is a lot of the forest that remains unsettled and uncleared, which makes for beautiful foggy mornings where the clouds are sitting among the trees.  The last part of our German adventure took us through the Black Forest to a few different towns.   Our first stop was Triberg, which is a town that every German we met was kind of looking at us with a blank stare like “why are you going there?” It was a cute little hillside town, reminiscent of Big Bear, with a lot of steep roofs and medieval architecture. But what it is famous for is the worlds largest cuckoo clock and tons of homemade cuckoo clocks. We arrived at our Airbnb in the evening and after dropping off our stuff in ...
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