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2014 Spoleto Picture a Day 12
Buenasera again — And now we have caught up to today. When I got up at five this morning, it was raining, everything soaked. I made the executive decision to hold classes here at the villa instead of...
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2014 Spoleto Picture a Day 13
Hooray! Here it is, the first of our annual cooking classes with chef Andrea Leonelli at Locanda Rovicciano, his incredible country restaurant just outside Spoleto. Andrea, formerly the head chef to...
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2014 Spoleto Picture a Day 14
Ciao — Day 14 is here, and lest we forget at this halfway point why we’re on our Italian excursion, I’m posting some pictures regarding our classroom facility. That’s because this am where we learn....
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2014 Spoleto Picture a Day 15
Miei Amici (spelled correctly this time!) — The students are all pretty much down with colds today. Because we’re all in this villa together, it often happens that if one person comes down with...
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2014 Spoleto Picture a Day 16
Salve! Please forgive the lack of missives these last couple days, but we’ve been a little off radar this weekend. On Friday, the vast majority of students — ten of them — headed to Siena, the medieval...
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2014 Spoleto Picture a Day 18
Caro Tutti — Bret qui. One mishap over the weekend: Lori got stung by a sea urchin while swimming in Sorrento (see photo 1 for the site of the sortie), and though she’s in a bit of pain, she managed to...
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2014 Spoleto Picture a Day 19
Buonasera — Classes today — but I had to bow out of attending mine, as I have come down with what everyone else has had. I felt it coming on over the weekend, but what with the notion of Dario and...
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2014 Spoleto Picture a Day 20
Salve — The next installment of our cooking classes! Today, the second half of us made it to Andrea’s 15th century farmhouse-turned-reatsaurant, and were, as always, carried away with both the food and...
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Spoleto Picture a Day 1
It’s that time of year again: Spoleto Picture a Day! We’ve started the month-long program of study we hold each year here in Charleston’s sister city of Spoleto, Italy (we being the College of...
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2017: Spoleto Picture a Day 1
by: Bret Lott Buongiorno! This is our eighth year in the villa, a 15th century farmhouse just outside town that looks out on the Umbrian Valley toward Assisi. This year we have fourteen students from...
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