I've made it to New York, the first leg of this rather ambitious trip. Here, in outline, is the plan:
May 9-16: Staying with my mom on the Upper West Side, visiting sibs and friends in the city
May 17-21: Music workshop in Manchester VT with Dot (my mom).
May 22: Danny arrives in NY; we're staying at my brother Dean's place on W 81st while he and his wife are off in Normandy
May 24: Danny and I fly to Milan.
I realize I'm actually a bit vague on the dates from this point on. We're spending a week or so visiting friends in a small town outside of Parma, eating and trying to learn some more Italian, then visiting another friend in Orvieto.
On June 9 we meet up with our kids in Rome and head to Campobasso, capital of Molise, the province where they and I will be applying to be recognized as Italian (dual) citizens. We'll spend the next two weeks in an as-yet-to-be-named village there. We're hoping it will be Cantalupo ("cantaloupe"), the town where my grandfather was raised before he came to the States at age 9, but we won't know for sure until closer to the day.
On June 25, citizenship recognition hopefully accomplished, the family disperses and Danny and I head to the Adriatic coast, including Bari, Brindisi, and Lecce, in search of warm weather and low-price real estate. I am extremely dubious about getting involved with the latter, but maybe Danny will win me over.
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2 comments:
Be still my heart. A Tessa blog. I can die happy now. You better write in it because now you've got a faithful audience. Oh boy. We're going to be in New York and we're going to music camp and then on to Italia where we're going to study the language, become citizens, and buy our dream villa. I'm thrilled. Blessings on your head.
Yours are by far the best plans I've heard of among all our acquaintance for at least a decade.
But my script seems to be very small. I'll write again when I can figure out how to make it legible. Or should I just use that ancient method known as email?
Wonderful to stay at Orvieto. We went there for the first time ever, in March. Unforgettably magnificent. Luca Signorelli now one of our favourites.
Lots of love and auguri !
Margaret and Colin
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