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    Reiman gardens

    Today I visited Reimand Gardens in Ames, where I could admire various beautiful butterflies in the fascinating Butterfly Wing, where, after a very nice explanation about the varieties of butterflies present in the garden, you can literally walk among butterflies flying around you and admire them in all their beauty. The garden offers also Peter Pan’s path for kids, where you can sit surrounded by a very pleasurable set of trees and flowers, and an external path, where you can admire the roses collection (still not visible due to the long winter of this year), a nice small lake, birds, and of course flowers. You can see the pictures I…

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    Food!

    Someone asked me what I eat in the United States. Well, with some rare exception at lunch, when I’m at work, I exercise my cooking skills and prepare Italian food at home (Some simple examples here). With some effort I was able to reproduce almost everything I used to eat in Italy, and it’s not too difficult to find Italian products like pasta Barilla, various brands of our olive oil and other products. The hardest thing to find is real Espresso coffee, but I’m trying the number of coffees I drink to zero, so its lack is helpful!