
Aperitivo in Italy is an event of nibbles, small glasses filled with wine, Campari or Aperol and most importantly, an opportunity to socialize. Think of…

I have to let you in on a secret. I’ve been cooking recipes from French Women Don’t Get Fat, and don’t tell anyone, but they’re…

While we were in Italy last year (see “Italy 2016” photo diaries), we worked as farmers at an Agriturismo outside Pavullo nel Frignano, located about…

Click here to read my advice for ordering coffee in Rome and where to do it! Below is an excerpt from the article on Fiddle…

Gourmandly designs food and wine tours for hungry and curious travelers. They call Bainbridge Island, WA their home, and this team is obsessed with cultivating…

Hungry for a meal off the beaten path? Read my guide before your next trip to Italy “7 Restaurants Less Traveled: Italy” on Gourmandly. These…

There are 156,349 reasons why I love Italy, but one of them has to be how petite things are: coffee, pastries, cars, elevators! We stayed…

In my post, Itay 2016: Spelling Matters, I mentioned our efforts to reach Ravello for a Tuesday morning market. Unfortunately we never made it to…

We learned a valuable travel lesson, especially in Italy. Spelling REALLY matters. Eddie and I trade travel planning responsibilities depending upon who’s encouraging the…

The photos are wrong. Amalfi and the surrounding Massa Lubrense are impossible to capture with a lens. The enormity, expanse and awe cannot be felt…

Buongiorno! We are renting an apartment on the outskirts of Sorrento in the quaint and oh so friendly town of Torca, Massa Lubrense. The thing…

Ciao ragazzi! My apologies for going dark but we have been working, and now traveling non-stop since my last post from Bologna. While in Pavullo…

Ciao from Italia! We spent a quick two days in Bologna to get our city fix before moving to a farm in the hillside of…

Five days into our journey! We arrived in Milan Monday evening after taking the train from the airport to our apartment in Brera, a great…