This trip had been planned since January and almost didn’t happen. But I’m going to skip over our horrendous airport fiasco to bring you our first, and my favorite, part of Easter vacation in Northern Italy: La Strada del Prosecco (The Prosecco Road). We spent two days (although I could’ve stayed much longer) driving around…
We don’t technically have a “spring break” for Italian schools, but they did have a couple days off for the Easter holiday this year. So combined with the weekend, we were able to take our son out a day early for a week-long vacation in Northern Italy!! Our adventures began with driving through the vineyard-lined…
It’s hard not to know or recognize one of the most famous and intriguing maskers of the European culture while here in Naples: Pulcinella. White dress, black mask, pointed hood, and BIG nose, he is everywhere! A personage of the comedy of arts, in which he plays a comic servant, Pulcinella originated from a man…
What to do on a Friday when it’s been rainy for days and you’re feeling kind of antsy?? Hang out at a vineyard with the owner and his wife! A day enjoying some delicious food (prepared by their son who is famous and has been featured on a TV show here in Italy), watching the…
A leisurely Sunday trek around the crater of Monte Nuovo with friends. A few rainy days still popped up around this time towards the end of March, but other times we ended up with perfect days for hikes like this! Monte Nuovo (New Mountain) is a cinder cone volcano within the Campi Flegrei caldera, near…
Bucket list item: Attend an Italian opera. One Friday night: Attended an Italian opera, in Italy, in the oldest public venue in the world (opened in 1737!!)!! Honestly, moving to this country during a pandemic did not give me high hopes that this dream would be a reality in the few short years that I…
It was probably around a Tuesday one week when I was trying to figure out a day trip for us to do for the coming weekend. We have loads of lists of places we want to see and things we want to do, but for some reason I was having a hard time deciding. I…
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