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28 June 2011

Travel Tip Tuesday: Summer Travel Tips for Your Trip to Calabria

Ahhh, the dog days of summer – hot days, cool beaches, and if you are lucky, even cooler summer vacations to southern Italy. If you are planning a trip this...
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22 June 2011

Undiscovered Southern Italy: Vallo di Diano

It’s no secret I’m a fan of off-the-beaten-track Italy. I love discovering new, under-appreciated locations and I love even more to be able to share them with you. Vallo di...
15 June 2011

Eye on Italy Podcast 48 … Forty-Eight? Dang that’s a lot of podcastin’

Would you believe my Italy blogger friends … the expat-world-famous, Sara, Jessica and Michelle (of Ms. Adventures in Italy, Why Go Italy and Bleeding Espresso, respectively) just published their 48th...
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3 June 2011

In Pursuit of the Perfect Parmigiana

If there is one thing expats in southern Italy can agree on, it’s that we have the. best. food. in the country. Ok, ok, expats in other parts of Italy...
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italian words and phrases
31 May 2011

44 Cats and Crying Crocs

Some people are just naturally gifted language learners. They hear a word a few times and bam!-it’s engrained in their memories. They see something written and viola!-they can pronounce it....
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southern italy travel - sassari
26 May 2011

Driving in Sardinia: The Best Bits

Many of the greatest things in southern Italy are better experienced with a car. It’s true whether it is because you can see hard-to-reach ruins or castles, because you can...
24 May 2011

Travel Tip Tuesday: Three Basic Tips for Traveling with an Itsy Bitsy Baby

You all know what a brave fearless silly girl I am, right? I moved to hole-in-the-bottom-of-the-boot Calabria, had a baby in italiano and most recently, traveled with said baby on...
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Calabrian Holidays - Pietragrande
19 May 2011

Three Bustling Beach Towns on Calabria’s Ionian Coast

Last week I wrote about three of my favorite Tyrrhenian Sea beach towns and since I live on the Ionian, I couldn’t forget about my neighbors, now could I? Calabria’s...
17 May 2011

Reader Question: Best Villages to See by Train

I posted a note to my Facebook page last week inviting readers to send in their Calabria or southern Italy travel questions. I got a few fun ones that I’m...
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12 May 2011

Fight Like an (American) Girl in Catanzaro

It has been a week of firsts for me … my first Mother’s Day, which was celebrated beautifully by husband and son … my first afternoon of back-to-back-to-back phone calls...
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Calabrian Holidays - Tropea
10 May 2011

Three of My Favorite Towns on Calabria’s Tyrrhenian Coast

A few months ago I wrote about three of my favorite mountain villages in Calabria, but now that the sun is starting to twinkle behind that wide Calabrian sky, it’s...
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calabria tour - tropea
5 May 2011

Calabria or Bust!?!

Regular readers might have heard about a funky food tour I have been working on for October (see green line above). It’s been a long time in the making and...
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