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  • Architecture, Capri, Tempting Tuesday · November 10, 2009

    Tempting Tuesday: Church of Santo Stefano, Capri

    Amalfi, Architecture, Art, Tempting Tuesday · September 15, 2009

    Tempting Tuesday: The Cloister of Paradise in Amalfi

    Architecture, Capri, Tempting Tuesday · September 8, 2009

    Tempting Tuesday: The Certosa di San Giacomo in Capri

    Architecture, Blogosphere, Naples, Sunday Shout-out · September 6, 2009

    Sunday Shout-out: The Espresso Break

    Amalfi Coast, Architecture, Costiera Amalfitana, My Menu, Pontone, Scala, What's On · September 4, 2009

    A Night of Music & Magic in Scala

    Amalfi, Amalfi Coast, Architecture, Blogosphere, Costiera Amalfitana, Video · August 21, 2009

    Happy Hour and the Bells of San Benedetto in Amalfi

    Amalfi Coast, Architecture, Atrani, Costiera Amalfitana, Holidays · July 22, 2009

    A Day of Celebration in Atrani

    Architecture, Conca dei Marini, Holidays, Tempting Tuesday · June 30, 2009

    Tempting Tuesday: Church of Sant’Antonio in Conca dei Marini

    Architecture, Capri, Tempting Tuesday · June 23, 2009

    Tempting Tuesday: Chiesa Monumentale di San Michele in Anacapri

    Amalfi, Architecture, WRITING · June 12, 2009

    A Walk Through Amalfi’s Duomo of Sant’Andrea

    Architecture, Pontone, Tempting Tuesday · May 26, 2009

    Tempting Tuesday: San Filippo Neri in Pontone

    Architecture, FOOD & DRINK, Scala, Tempting Tuesday · May 19, 2009

    Tempting Tuesday: Scala Porte Aperte

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    My name is Laura and the Amalfi Coast is my passion and my home. I’m a writer and photographer who is endlessly inspired by the incredible beauty of the Amalfi Coast. Welcome to Ciao Amalfi!

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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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