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She makes it look easy

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=278Lsd5jmyI] Like in most towns in the area, Sant’Andrea’s cobblestone streets are tight, to say the least. The vast majority aren’t wide enough to fit two Matchbox-sized cars at a time, making driving for newbies a heart-pumping challenge. Even hairier, there is a one-way path — a six-foot-wide alley, really — that’s used as a [...]

The trip to the Marina

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

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[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=304214318353816860&pr=goog-sl] With Sant’Andrea sitting way up on a hill (many of the small towns along the Ionian Sea were built far from the shore as a defense mechanism), it’s quite a ride to get to and from the rest of the world. Nanny and Poppy say there are 60 curves from top to bottom. I [...]