The Path of the Gods—Sentiero degli Dei—is one of the most famous walking routes in Italy. It leads down a mountain to Positano. This seaside town is perched in a sheltered bay on the Amalfi Coast. According to legend, the…
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Recalling holiday illuminations which I saw as a young child is a favorite place for me to wander in my mind. Who didn’t love being piled into a station wagon near Christmas Eve to go admire the holiday illuminations?…
Meeting cats and dogs is a predominant theme in my travels in 2019. I started off New Year’s Day in Italy hiking the Circuito Tre Calli with an adorable Russell Terrier dog named Miya. She reminded me that the…
Walking Italy’s Cinque Terre Trail in Vernazza is indelibly written on my mind. Vernazza is one of five saltwater pearls linked together in the necklace known as Cinque de Terre (Five Lands) in northwestern Italy. Vernazza is 1,100 years…
Cooking tiramisu is complex but the effort rewards the patient chef. You will create a dish worthy of the Roman gods. Tiramisu sounds like it tastes in your mouth—creamy, exotic, and tiered. Its translated meaning is “pick me up”…
We all make them and break them. Resolutions. I have a friend who makes “Intentions”. She announces to the universe what she wants to happen in the new year. And oddly enough since they are intentions—instead of New Years…
I am falling in love with an Italian canine. She is a little dog so don’t tell my cats back home. She stands about two feet tall. She never barks (or even yips). Her name is Miya. She is…
On my hiking vacation on the Amalfi Coast, I will learn how fior di latte is produced in Italy. Our destination is Naclerio, home of the Fior di Latte shop, outside Bomerano, Italy. This is a three-generation Amalfi Coast…