Last Tuesday on this blog I tempted you with the Ravello Festival, which is certainly one of the Amalfi Coast's artistic and cultural highlights each year. What makes the Festival simply spectacular is its location on the beautiful grounds of Ravello's Villa Rufolo. Set right in the heart of ...
Archives for 2009
Sunday Shout-out: Happy Mother’s Day!!
This Sunday I want to give a shout out to all the moms reading . . . Happy Mother's Day!! You all most certainly deserve a shout-out every day! I send my love and wishes to my wonderful mother on this day, and wish we weren't so far apart. My Mom's favorite place in the world is Positano, which ...
Out & About: Doorway to Paradise
Ravello is a small and relatively level city, which means you can walk most of it without having to go up or down a ridiculous amount of steps. But there are a few parts of the city that are worth the hike up or down the steps or the steep, curving road. The city is full of beautiful surprises! One ...
Ravello’s Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer
Continuing with la città della musica, as Ravello is called here on the Amalfi Coast, I have been watching the construction of the city's new Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer over the past many months. While the city has matchless outdoor venues, such as the Villa Rufolo, Villa Cimbrone and the Piazza ...
Tempting Tuesday: Ravello Festival 2009
I go to Ravello two or three times a week to visit family, meet up with my Italian/ English study partner, or to go to the outdoor market that comes every Tuesday. In fact, as soon as I finish writing this post, I will be heading to the market in Ravello in hopes of finding basilico and prezzemolo ...
Sunday Shout-out: Twitter
Italy has changed me in so many wonderful and unexpected ways. I am sure anyone who has spent a significant amount of time in another country would say the same thing. For instance, I have noticed that I have gone from being the slightly uptight, exceedingly punctual, and far too serious ...
Weekend Reads: The Beauty of Amalfi, an Italian Tale
One of the joys of starting this blog has been sharing the beauty of the Amalfi Coast with so many people around the world. This place has a way of enchanting people and creating a strong and lasting pull. I know it has for me! Over the past few months I have met people from all over the United ...
La Festa dei Lavoratori 2009
The first of May is a public holiday in Italy celebrating International Workers' Day. Known as La Festa dei Lavoratori, it is a day often celebrated out of doors, if possible, with picnics, parades and concerts. Michelle over at Bleeding Espresso wrote a great summary of the holiday last year. Much ...
Out & About: New Ticket Booths in Amalfi
I was greeted in Amalfi the other evening by a row of new ticket booths for boat tours and the boats that run between the cities on the Amalfi Coast and to the islands. While they are certainly all fancy and orderly, I really don't care for them at all. Where the old wooden booths with their ...
Tempting Tuesday: Sorrento’s Surprising Duomo
I guess I have Sorrento on the mind these days, and I have been thinking back to my last visit there on a beautiful day at the end of January. I had walked by the Duomo of Sorrento on previous visits, but hadn't been there while the church was open. Walking into a church I haven't visited before is ...
How to spend six hours at the JFK airport
I had somehow convinced myself that my flight for Rome left at 2:30pm. When I got off the plane from Minneapolis last Friday and saw on the flight departure screens that my flight to Rome left at 4:30pm, I very quickly realized my already long 4 hour layover had just become a 6 hour layover. Uffa! ...
Sunday Shout-out: Welcome to Sorrento Leanne!
After a perfectly uneventful day of travel, I am very happily back home on the Amalfi Coast. Both of my flights left early, I had time to go look at the Saarinen TWA Flight Center (exterior only), had lots of space on the JFK to Roma flight, my mound of luggage arrived safely, and we hit no traffic ...