Nice to find you again Pauline!

[Bill Thayer]

[I'm slow on the uptake, and just discovered Slow Europe today. It's nice to have your kind of resource online again!]

For those of you who might not be Pauline, I'm a guy who's done pieces of Italy and, a long time ago, good chunks of France very slowly: on foot. The trade-off, as always with slow travel, is that although I've spent a total of about 16 months of my life in Italy, I've never been to Venice, Naples, or Palermo: but I know Umbria exceedingly well — for a furriner, at any rate. Pauline's famous Circles — friendly amendment: I start with a Circle Zero, at the local (preferably Mom-and‑Pop) alimentari — are the only way to go.

 

[Pauline]

Bill! It is wonderful to see you here!

 

[Chris]

I'm happy to see you too! I always enjoyed your posts in the early days of slowtrav.

 

[Bill Thayer]

Thanks Chris. It's mutual, I'm happy to see you and several others from those days. This time round though I may have very little to contribute: I haven't left Chicago in 8 years, and the USA in ten.

 

[Pauline]

Bill I don't know why your second post did not go live immediately. I have the software set so that everyone's first post is held until I look at it (to protect against spammers who have a lot of passports to sell us), but once your post is approved, all the rest go live immediately. But your second one didn't. Ah, software

 

[artnbarb]

Ciao Bill!

 

[Bill Thayer]

Salve! I'm still regretting having missed you, now so many years ago! As you probably know, S. Venanzo wound up, in part because of you, being the last one of the 92 comuni of Umbria I visited….

 

[artnbarb]

I remember - we missed you by a matter of days! Now we're 6 hours south of you - you are in Chicago, right?

 

[Bill Thayer]

Yup; last time I was in Kentucky was in 2006, at Jenkins.