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"I always think the project I am working on will be the best." -Patricia Urquiola (born in 1961, Spanish by birth, Italian by choice) We always try to find homes to stay in versus hotels or vacation …
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Many people talk about giving the gift of experience to the point where the words have lost some momentum in recent years. The concept of experience gifts, however, came full circle for me this …
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I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I’d rather dance with the cows until you come home. - Groucho Marx As we sat at Cabo da Roca, the Westernmost tip of mainland …
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You are the trip I did not take, you are the pearls I could not buy, you are my blue Italian lake, you are my piece of foreign sky. -Anne Campbell We left Portugal with a general direction in …
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We are in between villages. Some might call it lost, and certainly it feels that way at times, but we like to call it discovery. One definition of discover is to “make known or visible.” When we …
The picture on the left was taken four years ago today. We were on our way to the airport, with a one-way ticket overseas and only the belongings in our carry-on bags to our name. As we waited for …
