Comments on: Back and the Passport Story

By: Margaret

Margaret — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:21:00 +0000

Hi Connie:
Could you tell me the address (or where about) of the yarn stores? Both in Milan & Parma.
We will be visitng Italy late August/Begining Sept.

Thanks you.
Mararet

By: Typesetter

Typesetter — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:37:00 +0000

Leslie, actually (we) Italians knit lmuch less. Knitting is so far poretty much limited to the grannies, and few people below 40 knit. Centro della lana is hufe and fabolous, but in MIlano I think there are no more than a dozen yarn shops, including the shops that sell a limited range of yarns and lots of non knitting items. And here we are talking about a city of 2 millions. Overall, Centro della Lana is pretty unique, probably the largest yarn store I have ever visited in my whole life.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:55:00 +0000

Looking at that yarn store, I think I’ve died and gone to heaven. Why aren’t there yarns stores in the US of A like that, and particularly in California, Southern California? Do Italians knit that much more than we do?

By: Typesetter

Typesetter — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:50:00 +0000

The yarn store in Milano is one I use, although only occasionally because I have a tiny and delicous store right by my office, another near my apartment and several stalls in the Saturday markets of my town. it’s called “Centro della lana” and, yes, it’s a huge temptation. I tend to silently slide by the wall to sxplore the yarns when I am there. The owners have come to know me and they know I will not dislace or ruin things. The reason they stopped allowing customers past the central area is that (as I have been told) they lost several hundred euro worth of materials to children and adtults as well who would undo the balls, drop them and walk on them or eat gelato on top of the yarn. And refuse to pay the runed material.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:41:00 +0000

I know some of those Changs you speak of, the worst culprit is a guy named Ding, who I believe lives in California. The Last I’ve heard, this man left a 600 dollar camcorder on a restaurant table while visiting Wuhan, China. Good thing you married well.

anonymous

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:30:00 +0000

That yarn store in Parma looks wonderful! We’re hoping to go there in March, so I’ll have to try to find it. Re passports: years ago I arrived with family at the airport for a trip to Hong Kong, to realize I’d left my passport at home! We had to go home and do the whole thing over the next day (luckily were able to change the tickets). Your husband’s family sounds like my father, who keeps a notebook in his car and records every fill of gas so he can calculate his miles to the gallon (and purchases odd amounts so he can get rid of his loose change).

By: Veronique

Veronique — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 16:02:00 +0000

Ooh, I have passport stories too! When I was 12, I forgot my passport (but not my plane ticket), thinking that my dad was taking care of it. But he thought my step-mother was in charge… I got to stay on vacation with them an extra day, so I was happy!
My 14 yr old sister also had an almost disaster: she’d been on my dad’s passport since birth, but the evil US customs want *everyone* to have their own passport. Which is something that my parents found out 2 days before their trip to NY!! They made me call the french embassy here in NY, because it was 6 hours later in France and everything was closed… But she got her passport!
Yeah, sometimes it pays to be organized. I wish I could do it.