Thursday, December 07, 2006
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Things I love in Italy…
- Gelato! Especially from Old Bridge, Giolitti, Giolarmony, and Capitan Cono – the best in town
- Train rides through rolling plains
- Cornetti al ciocolatta
- Cheese (especially fresh parmigiano and provolone dolce)
- Open air markets (food, clothes, shoes, house wares, antiques…)
- The plethora of grandparents that fill the sidewalks in the evenings as they walk their little ones home from school
- St. Peters against a mottled blue and white sky
- Osteria del Pontifici – where the waiters know you by name and never fail to produce incredible Italian dishes made by the sweet little cook in the back
- Strolling at dusk and discovering huge feats of architecture at every turn
- Roman water fountains – artistic, hundreds of years old, and with water as sweet as breeze
- Sundays – the city grows quiet and peaceful and it seems the very air breathes a sigh of rest
- Rome Baptist Church – where people from around the globe find a family, alike only in faith and current residence
- Erin, Katy, Gracie, Colleen, Christen, and Christina – special gifts that were dropped into my life to love, be loved by, and just plain laugh a lot
Books I read in Rome…
(*with cute little stars by my favorites!)
Francine Rivers:
*Redeeming Love
*A Voice in the Wind
*Echo in the Darkness
As Sure as the Dawn
Atonement Child
The Last Sin Eater
Unashamed
Unveiled
Phillip Yancey
*The Jesus I Never Knew
Jerry B. Jenkins
Though None Go With Me
Martha McPhee
L’America
Emily Giffin
Something Blue
C.S. Lewis
Screwtape Letters
*The Great Divorce
Lynn Austin
*Fire by Night
Frank Peretti
Prophet
Anita Diamant
*The Red Tent
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