Pre-trip info - for the 3 people (is that optimistic?) who may read this, here's a link to where I'll post stuff from my trip to Italy. Note that it will have no link to this one (shudder to think). Not sure I'll have time/energy to post much more before I leave, but rest assured that I'll have much to say when I return. Hopefully Metamanda will help me get a real blog going (and maybe a real web site too) such that there will be comments and trackback on it, and separate pages for photos, essays, etc.