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Amalfi Coast Webcams

TRAVEL · September 5, 2015

New Live Streaming Webcams of Amalfi!

If you're like me and miss the Amalfi Coast all the time when you're not here, then I've got exciting news. The Lega Navale Amalfi webcams are back! They're not only back, they're better than before. There are three new HD live streaming webcams located around Amalfi and the images are much clearer ...

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Amalfi Coast Travel Ferry Sorrento Positano

TRAVEL · August 5, 2015

Take the Ferry from the Amalfi Coast to Sorrento!

I've received tons of questions after I shared my Amalfi Coast Ferry Services post earlier this year, especially about whether or not there would be a ferry service connecting the Amalfi Coast and Sorrento. While there was a delay earlier this summer on the start of the service, it has officially ...

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Amalfi Coast Travel Positano Beach Spiagga Grande

TRAVEL · August 3, 2015

A Guide to the Beaches of Positano

After receiving such a great response about my Guide to the Beaches of Amalfi, I've decided to expand the series to cover another favorite spot on the Amalfi Coast. Of course, I'm talking about Positano! Now these aren't your usual top beaches of the entire Amalfi Coast type guides. These narrow ...

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Amalfi Coast Travel Basilca Sant Eustachio Ruins

HISTORY & CULTURE, TRAVEL · July 26, 2015

Remarkable Ruins of the Basilica of Sant’Eustachio

Along the stone steps between the sleepy villages of Minuta and Pontone in Scala, you'll find something a little unexpected. Set in a commanding position on a promontory surrounded by terraces of olive and lemon trees sits the ruins of what was once one of the finest churches in the Republic of ...

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Lemon Mousse Recipe

FOOD & DRINK · July 21, 2015

How to Make Lemon Mousse from the Amalfi Coast

I fell in love with the Amalfi Coast on a week long holiday (although it really only took one day ...) and my husband is a tour guide for the Campania region. This means tours and holiday experiences are both close to my heart and a part of my life. I'm always on the lookout for the best ways to ...

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Ravello Festival Photo by Pino Izzo

TRAVEL · May 30, 2015

The Ravello Festival 2015

If you're planning a trip to the Amalfi Coast, mark your calendars for June 20th to September 5th for the Ravello Festival. The 63rd edition of the popular festival dedicated to music, theater, opera, dance and the arts is set to be a blockbuster with an outstanding line up of performances. The ...

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Amalfi Coast Beaches Colourful Sun Umbrellas at the Marina Grande Beach in Amalfi - Horizontal

TRAVEL · May 23, 2015

A Guide to the Beaches of Amalfi

Planning a trip to Amalfi this summer and looking forward to some beach time soaking up the sun? It's definitely a must during your stay on the Amalfi Coast. But did you know you had a choice for where to go to the beach in Amalfi? While it's not very large, there are several beaches you can choose ...

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Amalfi Coast Accommodation Monastero Santa Rosa

TRAVEL · May 10, 2015

Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel & Spa – A Dream Amalfi Coast Getaway

While Amalfi, Positano and Ravello are familiar to travelers around the world, the Amalfi Coast is home to many other charming towns as well as hidden villas and hotels tucked away in between. Let me introduce you to one of the most spectacular - the Monastero Santa Rosa in Conca dei Marini. Located ...

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Amalfi Coast Travel Duomo Campanile

TRAVEL · May 4, 2015

Here’s Why You Want to Get Lost in Amalfi

Standing in the center of town and looking up at the Duomo, or Cathedral of St. Andrew, is an experience you simply have to have in Amalfi. Sure, it can be a bit crowded during the busy season. But, look, did you see that view? Going to Amalfi and not standing in Piazza Duomo is like going to Venice ...

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WRITING · April 30, 2015

Book Review | Italy Explained: Italian Trains by Jessica Spiegel

If you're planning a trip to Italy and thinking of getting around by train, then I've got a book you'll want to read. But first, I'm going to let you in on an embarrassing little travel secret. The first time I took a train in Italy it was very nearly a disaster. Back in 2001, on my first trip to ...

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Celebrating Independent Bookstore Day with a newsl Celebrating Independent Bookstore Day with a newsletter inspired in part by this beautiful song by @samantha_whates & @mgboultermusic. While I could never decide on just seven bookshops for my whole life, I’m sharing about seven remarkable indie bookshops I visited earlier this month in Bath and London. The link is in my bio, but swipe through the photos here for a look inside - each bookshop is tagged if they’re on Instagram. But definitely give them all a follow: 
@persephonebooks 
@mrbsemporium 
@toppingsbath 
@sherlockandpages 
@huntingravenbooks 
@hatchardspiccadilly 
@lrbbookshop 

Long live the independent bookshops! 📚
Thanks Amalfi … I needed a little reminder of th Thanks Amalfi … I needed a little reminder of that this morning. 🩶
Magic to watch the reflections dancing on the wate Magic to watch the reflections dancing on the water. Magic when they’re frozen in time. Just so much magic all around. I could spend a long time in moments like these. ✨
While it’s been a beautiful Easter Sunday in Ama While it’s been a beautiful Easter Sunday in Amalfi, I’m still processing all of the incredible experiences from my trip to England last week. And, thanks to “Square Haunting” by @francescawade, I am still very much haunting the streets and squares of London. Her book opens with this marvelous quotation from Virginia Woolf’s diary written 100 years ago today on April 20, 1925 (photo 1). It captures just what it felt like I was doing days ago - including a saunter through Bloomsbury Square (photo 2). Diving into this book over the weekend has felt like I’ve been able to linger even longer in those rare April days of spring blooms and blue skies in London. 

This book caught my eye immediately at the ever so charming @sherlockandpages in Frome (photos 4 & 5). How could it not when it was surrounded my one of my all time favorite books (“Letters to Camondo” by @edmunddewaal) and one of the best books I read last year (“All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me” by @patrickbringley)?

Hope that your Easter weekend has been a lovely one - with a little bit of “street sauntering & square haunting” wherever you may be!
Just had an unforgettable spring day visiting the Just had an unforgettable spring day visiting the Jane Austen House in Chawton as an early birthday present for myself.(Quite a bit early as it’s not until June.) But earlier this year I decided to have a Jane Austen theme for the year, especially since 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth in 1775. I do love a theme! Seeing the place where she wrote all of her novels, her tiny twelve-sided writing table, a quilt she made, and sitting in the garden listening to the birds sing is altogether something I’ll never forget. ✍️
Watching the colors of the sea and the fish swimmi Watching the colors of the sea and the fish swimming and thinking of the deep connections of old friends. And this poem by Mary Oliver. Hold tight to the friends who always find a way to say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment.

Mysteries, Yes 
— by Mary Oliver

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous
to be understood.

How grass can be nourishing in the
mouths of the lambs.
How rivers and stones are forever
in allegiance with gravity
while we ourselves dream of rising.
How two hands touch and the bonds will
never be broken.
How people come, from delight or the
scars of damage,
to the comfort of a poem.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.

Let me keep company always with those who say
“Look!” and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.
Mary Oliver wrote in a poem that “happiness isn’t a town on a map.” But when the little bit of wisteria blooms in Amalfi, I’m not so sure. 💜
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