A few more...

Roma at night....
The view from one of the old towers in Lucca

Venezia...near San Marco

That's all I have time for now...perhaps more soon.

pictures

This is from Burano...the lace making island of venice
This was the view I had from my window at the villa....


would post more, but it took forever...maybe later

Kalispera

Settling In

OK...first off, trying to figure out which link to click to write a new post when all of the links are in Greek is not so easy. My growing up near the frat and sorority houses is really coming in handy now! As you have probably deduced, I'm in Greece. Not only am I in Greece, I am on Paros. We got here yesterday afternoon and moved in. Our apartments are all very cool. We spent the entire afternoon- and some of the evening- running between rooms to look at them all because they are all different configurations. One even has a spiral staircase that leads to a bedroom! Paros is beautiful, but I will get back to that.

I'm sorry that I have not kept you all up to date by posting on this here blog, but I have been so busy. My month in Italia was a whirlwind. It feels like only yesterday that I left home when in fact it has been over a month. I enjoyed Italy immensly. Everyday, well almost everyday, we went to different cities. We went to Firenze, Lucca, Siena, Pisa, Pistoia (where we lived), Venezia and Roma. We learned all kinds of things about art history...specifically about the 1200-1500's. I really enjoyed being able to see all of the buildings, paintings and sculptures that I have heard about all of my life. I would go into further detail now, but if I start, this blog post will be so long that none of you will read it.

A little bit about the Villa Rospigliosi (and the food)... The Villa Rospigliosi is a Renaissance villa that is owned by the church. It is a little ways outside of the center of Pistoia, tucked on the side of a hill between two olive groves. It was the perfect combination of country and city. The best part of the villa was the food and I would be crazy if I didn't tell you a little bit about it. We had homemade meals in Italy. If we were home (so every night except those we spent in Venezia and Roma), some Pisoiese ladies came and cooked for us. They made wonderful meals. There was always a pasta course (of which my favoirites were gnocchi with pesto sauce, penne with a red pepper sauce, and spaghetti) and then a meat and vegetables course. Occasionally the ladies would make desert cakes for us. Usually we would have an apple cake thing, but the last night in the villa they made us Tiramisu! It was the best! It has been over a week since we left the villa and let me tell you, it has been a hard week being away from that villa food. I will survive however because Greek food is also really, really good.

I don't have time for a long post, but I wanted to give an overview of sorts. I will hopefully (don't count on me, but I will try) post more about specific towns and things that we have done soon. Now that we are settled, I will most likely have more energy...however I will probably be putting all of my energy into my work. I hope all is well with everyone and I hope to talk to you soon!

If you've got some time on your hands, please email me I'd love to hear from anyone and everyone! That address is liscarney@gmail.com

Kalispera

Welcome!

Hello everyone!

I know I'm starting this about a month and a half before I even go off on my trip, but I wanted to set it up so that you all could know where to reach me. My plan, although it is probably ambitious (as I am not the best at keeping up things of this nature), is to update this blog as many times as I have a chance. Hopefully I will update at least once a week.

For those of you who don't know about my plan for this Fall here is a concise version of it. I leave on September 4th for Italy where I will be living in Pistoia, a small village between Florence and Pisa in Tuscany. I will be there for four weeks. While there, I will be traveling around Italy and learning art history with the school I am enrolled in, the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts.

At the end of September, I leave for Greece. I will be in Greece for ten weeks. There, I will live on the island of Paros. This island is 100 miles SE of Athens. During this time, I will be going to school and working primarily on photography as well as continuing my studies of art history. I have a week off in November (1-9) so if any of you just so happen to be coming to Italy or Greece let me know and maybe we can meet somewhere! I return to the United States sometime between the 16th and 18th of December, but the exact date is yet to be determined.

My plan is to post some of the images from my travels throughout the semester. I also hope to keep people updated on where I'm going and where I've been.

So, until September!