Comments on: Italy Roundtable: The Blogging Gift

By: Melissa Muldoon

Melissa Muldoon — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 06:07:41 +0000

Felice anno nuovo Rebecca! It was a pleasure participating in the Italy blogging roundtable in December. I hope you had a lovely holiday and the new year is off to a great start! We had a fabulous time with our boys and everyone was in great spirits. You may recall my older son Ryan…well, he met a young lady in Puglia shortly after we left Umbria last summer and they continue to be in touch through skype and instant messaging on their cell phones. I think my master plan is working…the best gift I could ever receive…an Italian daughter in law! ;-) You never know…one can dream! Best to you and your family! Un grande abbraccio! Melissa

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:40:40 +0000

Whip-smart and sarcastic as the dickens…why thank you :-D Glad you enjoyed it and that you guys branched out to allow us guest posters this month!

By: Katja

Katja — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:53:48 +0000

Oh well, at this point I may as well come out of hiding. I’ve known about that gifted blogging neighbor beyond the hills to the east for quite a while. Your great writing, insight and fantastic sense of humor traveled all the way to Southern Tuscany! But why in the world do you insist on writing about Umbria? Of all places!

And Alexandra, you hit the nail on the head. That’s exactly how I feel when visiting back in Switzerland. People talk to me as if I had an incurable brain tumor – and it was about time I realized!

Buone feste to you all!
Katja, the Swiss woman in Maremma

By: Valerie

Valerie — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:02:30 +0000

A very heart-felt congrats on your writing successes this past year. I’ve been laughing out loud at your posts since the first one on Slow Travel and am so very happy that you’re going forward and getting paid to do it!
Thanks for featuring my post – but daaaaammmm you for pointing me to the emotional post at Little Paradiso. That brought tears quicker than a sappy Christmas movie!

By: fabio

fabio — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:39:18 +0000

Ciao Rebecca! Now I have a lot of links to read, the best gift you could give to me: o lot of links to good blog focused in Italy. I didn’t know there were so many blogs written in english. Buona giornata ;)

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:01:45 +0000

Congratulations Rebecca for embedding the twitter search. See, now our readers can look at all the posts we couldn’t link!
So, Ashley from No Onions x Pickles is indeed a bright one and they have an #artsmart roundtable – I invited her. And I’d missed Valerie’s post, which is really wonderful (did you know she is another vet of House Hunters International this year?)
The swiss woman living in Tuscany took the words out of my mouth. Not the lots of visitors part, but the finding it harder to justify to others the reason for living in this messed up country. The questions people are asking her about Italy right now are the same questions I met while on a recent trip to Canada – people would look at me and say “So, how ARE things in Italy” with the same voice that you’d use to ask about someone with terminal brain cancer.
I’m so glad we opened up the challenge to others this month. What great gifts we got!