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    WRITING · August 12, 2017

    Check Out My Favorite Capri Walks in Dream of Italy!

    Book Review | The Amalfi Coast Up Close & Personal by Chantal Kelly

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    Book Review | The Amalfi Coast Up Close & Personal by Chantal Kelly

    Book Review | Only in Naples by Katherine Wilson

    WRITING · September 10, 2016

    Book Review | Only in Naples by Katherine Wilson

    The Amalfi Coast in Perillo Traveler Magazine

    WRITING · February 7, 2016

    The Amalfi Coast in Perillo Traveler Magazine

    Book Review | Italy Explained: Italian Trains by Jessica Spiegel

    WRITING · April 30, 2015

    Book Review | Italy Explained: Italian Trains by Jessica Spiegel

    Finding the Height of Beauty on Capri

    WRITING · April 25, 2015

    Finding the Height of Beauty on Capri

    Book Review | The Italians by John Hooper

    WRITING · April 20, 2015

    Book Review | The Italians by John Hooper

    Book Review | Dream of Venice

    WRITING · February 21, 2015

    Book Review | Dream of Venice

    The Amalfi Coast: Walking Through History One Step at a Time

    WRITING · December 6, 2014

    The Amalfi Coast: Walking Through History One Step at a Time

    Book Review | Dreaming of Laughing Hawk by Linda Katmarian

    WRITING · October 5, 2013

    Book Review | Dreaming of Laughing Hawk by Linda Katmarian

    Summer Reads for Amalfi Coast Lovers

    WRITING · June 22, 2013

    Summer Reads for Amalfi Coast Lovers

    WRITING · October 20, 2012

    Book Review | At Least You’re in Tuscany by Jennifer Criswell

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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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