Tours of the Bungalow, Episode 8 — Beyond the Bungalow: La Questura/Ufficio Immigrazione

Welp, we finally got our permessi di soggiorno. We have been trying since the day we arrived to attain them, and now they are in our possession. We were never given a clear explanation as to what they are, so we don't know what they do; but we paid a lot of money and now we have them. HOORAY! While we were at the immigration office waiting to get them we decided to do a bungalow tour from "Beyond the Bungalow." Enjoy.

Tours of the Bungalow, Episode 7 — The Drawing Wall

Today we present you with Tours of the Bungalow: Bungalow Tours, episode number seven. In this episode we provide a tour of the wall where we place our drawings. We also extend an invitation for a chance to be featured in a future episode of TotB:BT. Enjoy!

Tours of the Bungalow, Ep. 6 — Holiday Tree

We got a sweet little package in the mail from Amy and Douglas containing a do-it-yourself Christmas tree. The following an incredible tour of us putting it together. Enjoy.

Literary Accomplishments and a Makeover

Hello Friends and Virtual Vagabonds!
While we've been in Italy, we have read a lot of books—fictional and otherwise. We have decided to share that list with you here today.

Books (and short stories) that we have both read:
The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Fall by Albert Camus
Women by Charles Bukowski
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre

Books that only Lou has read:
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Confession and Other Religious Writings by Leo Tolstoy
Numerous Florence Guide Books

Books that Lou has started:
The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Books that Josh has started, but soon sent him into an existential quandary and/or a state of pure intellectual inferiority:
An Answer to the Question: "What is Enlightenment?" by Immanuel Kant
Why I am So Wise by Frederick Nietzsche
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

Books that the two of us infrequently read aloud to one another:
The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, The Way by Charles Bukowski

Josh has also beaten Super Mario World Advanced on the GameBoy Micro—once with Mario and once with Luigi. They're Italian, right?

Also, we collaborated on the new header in order to give the blog a makeover.

How does that make you feel?
Let us know in the comments!

Tours of the Bungalow, Episode 5 — Espresso

In this episode of Tours of the Bungalow: Bungalow Tours, we provide a tour of our attempt to make espresso.

Lucca — A Day Trip to Dream World

Hay Guise!
We went to Lucca on Wednesday and it was magnificent. We packed a lunch, rode the train, walked around, then rode the train back. While we were in Lucca our camera battery died, so we started making short videos instead photographs. Also, our train had some electrical problems, so we were stopped in Pistoia for about an hour. Tthere couldn't exist a better representation of our day than the following video (don't forget that you have the option to watch the video in full size HD on the YouTubez. To get there, simply click play below, then click the video again to navigate to it's Tube page [for all the parents out there]).

Tours of the Bungalow, Ep. 4 — Dinner

In this episode, we tour dinner. This is our longest running episode yet, as we are hoping for an endorsement from Kikkoman.