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Cinque Terre high trail (Volasra to Cornilglia compared to Amalfi Coast Path of the Gods (Agerola to Nocelle)

Old Jul 13th, 2013, 07:17 PM
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tuscanlifeedit - Well this is even more off topic than your question but we are in Chattanooga for the weekend and what a wonderful place Chattanooga is. We are sort of babysitting our granddaughter while our daughter participates in a triathlon (reduced to a biathlon because of flooding) tomorrow. Just got back from a nice dinner where way too much wine was consumed - we have had a really fun day. I love Chattanooga.

OK - so back to your question. You have probably already found this but below is a link to a list of her novels in order. I started with the first one and have read them in order. I'm now on "A Question of Belief". There are a couple of other fodors regular posters that you may know who also like Donna Leon (annhig and ekscrunchy) so you may want to give them a shout out for their opinions but here is my two cents worth. I think it would be best to read them in order but I also think each book stands on it's own. These stories are not the Dan Brown gripping type but are just really enjoyable. They don't really build on previous novels so I don't think you can go wrong starting with any one of them - but starting at the beginning worked well for me.

Oh lord, 6 o'clock is going to come early tomorrow morning!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Leon
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Old Jul 13th, 2013, 07:32 PM
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hanabilly - if you also reserve the right to filibuster then you are golden!
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Old Jul 13th, 2013, 09:25 PM
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john: Chattanooga and babysitting sounds great. We spent the day with our grandkids, at the mall, so their mom could shop for an upcoming trip. A lot of fun for us, but so exhausting.

I said to Enrico, who is 2.5 and verbal, "I sleep very well after I spend time with you." He said, "I go to bed really nice after I spend time with you." I'm not sure what that means, but it was damn cute.

I don't think DH likes Dan Brown. Me, I don't know from popular fiction, but I do know he likes mysteries and detective stories. I will grab one of these from the library to get him started.

Thanks.
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Old Jul 15th, 2013, 12:32 PM
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Ouch. My head still hurts from too much wine Saturday night. Fun and exhausting is right when it comes to grandkids. Kids are so advanced these days - 2.5 and verbal - wow (the scary thing is he probably knows what verbal means)! Pretty soon they will be talking the day they are born....

hanabilly - Jeez - I wonder what the heck I was thinking - I'm not really sure how the ability to filibuster is golden. Oh well. Any luck with the picture uploading project?
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Old Jul 15th, 2013, 01:07 PM
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Ha ha! Okay, I feel better now, not really getting it! Tried to imagine all the filibustering possibilities, and none of them made me look golden...oh well- you had Grandson lag.

Making some glacier-like progress on the photos, and even about to finish up the trip report! (I decided to type and edit in Word to avoid that "what was I thinking?" moment.)
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Old Jul 15th, 2013, 05:22 PM
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Smart thinking using Word!! I really wish there was a way we could edit our own fodor's posts. I would certainly fix some of my many "I really wasn't thinking at all when I wrote this" posts...
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The worst is when I wrote after dinner while still on the trip-it's great for sharing the enthusiasm of the fantastic day, but there's far too likely a possibility of sharing the effects of dinner's beverage as well. But hey, this is the Italy forum, right?
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