While I am off exploring the prairie lands, you can head over to the Venere.com Travel Blog and read a short article I wrote the day before San Valentino titled A Romantic Day in Amalfi. It is my idea of how to spend a perfect romantic day in Amalfi. Start with a trip to the beach, enjoy white wine ...
Greetings from the Heartland of America
Mt. VesuviusCiao a tutti! I am writing now from Nebraska, the heartland of America, where I was born and where I have just arrived for a Springtime visit with family. So perhaps I should say, "Howdy partner!" I will be traveling around the midwest for the next couple of weeks, but I will keep the ...
Pesce d’aprile
www.copyright-free-pictures.org.ukApril 1st is a day of trickery and shenanigans around the world, and Italy is no exception. In Italy, instead of an April Fool's trick, you play a trick that makes someone the pesce d'aprile, or literally the fish of April. Sounds pretty silly, doesn't it? That's ...
Tempting Tuesday: Naples at Table
This Tuesday I would like to tempt your taste buds with a little tale from the beginning of my culinary adventures on the Amalfi Coast. When I first arrived here two years ago, I have to admit I was quite nervous to start cooking for my boyfriend. There I was, a novice with Italian cooking, trying ...
Sunday Shout-out: Aglio, Olio & Peperoncino
The Italians are famous for their many traditions centered around food. A wonderful part of my last two years in Italy has been discovering and attempting to prepare the traditional meals and desserts that seem to come with every holiday. Food traditions here are not only centered around the ...
Out & About: First Signs of Summer Traffic in Amalfi
The first signs of summer traffic are starting to arrive on the Amalfi Coast. More and more buses arrive each day, which means the return of the inevitable mini traffic jams. The one above was caused by a poor tourist who had decided to rent a lovely Mercedes for a day on the Amalfi Coast. In this ...
Learning to Drive on the Amalfi Coast
They say driving in Italy is an adventure. They say the Amalfi Coast road, with all its curves, impossibly narrow stretches and crazy drivers, is even more of an adventure. But what those people didn't say is that learning to drive a manual transmission car for the first time in Italy and on the ...
Take a Virtual Drive on the Amalfi Coast!
Visualizzazione ingrandita della mappaThis morning I was very happy to read over at Bell'Avventura that Google Maps street view has come to the Amalfi Coast. And they picked a lovely, sunny day to make their visit! You can click along the white arrows to take a virtual drive along the Amalfi Coast ...
Tempting Tuesday: Cetara
The charming and quiet fishing village of Cetara is often missed by visitors to the Amalfi Coast. Group tours tend to focus on the major cities of Amalfi and Ravello, due in large part to parking issues, and then zip along the coast making stops at the overlook above Positano and the Grotta dello ...
Out & About: A Small World Moment in Amalfi
This morning I arrived in the Piazza Duomo in Amalfi to find a group of American students assembling themselves on the steps of the church for a concert. Curious as I was to find out where this group had come from, I had only a short time to run some errands and get to the food shops before they ...
