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Explore the My Bella Vita blog for Calabria travel guides, Italian travel inspiration, info on Calabria attractions, local insights, and content about exploring your Italian heritage. These make for the perfect complement to our Small Group Trips to Calabria! If you have any questions as you read, feel free to contact us. 

1 March 2011

Travel Tip Tuesday: How to Dress for Spring in Southern Italy

Some of the most common questions I get-and the most-searched terms I see through Google Analytics-deal with what travelers should wear when visiting southern Italy. In January I wrote a...
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23 February 2011

Shaking Your Groove Thing … Italian Style

Most people who read this blog wouldn’t mind having a few new Italian words and phrases in their vocabulary. However, if they are anything like yours truly, actually studying those...
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life in calabria-cherrye moore and peppe mannella
17 February 2011

The Business of Being Born in Calabria

As many of you know, I recently found myself jolted into motherhood … sour milk stains, dingy diapers, dodging a sprinkler system with every changing and more exhaustion than I...
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Italian villas and lush green trees line the sandy coast of Tropea, Calabria. Photo: Nemanja Pelic
15 February 2011

Reader Questions: A Day in Palermo

I kicked off my new Reader Question series last week by offering up some of my favorite “stopping points” for travelers passing through Calabria from Campania. Today, we are heading...
10 February 2011

Southern Italy Snapshots: Puglia

Our Southern Italy Snapshots series is into full swing and we’ve stopped both in bella Calabria and hopped off of the mainland with a visit to world-famous Sicily. Today we...
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8 February 2011

Seducing Your Sweetie: Five Italian Love Phrases for Valentine’s Day

As part of yesterday’s newsletter (you *do* subscribe to my newsletter, don’t you?) I listed five sweet Italian words you could use with your Valentine this year. Today, I’m expanding...
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5 February 2011

World Nutella Day 2011: Nutella and Mandarin S’mores

There’s been a lot on my plate lately, but I figure any event that is five years running deserves a little attention … and honestly, who doesn’t have room on...
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3 February 2011

Reader Questions: Ideal Stopping Point on Calabria’s West Coast

I announced on my Calabria Travel Facebook page last week that I’d begin answering Reader Questions as part of an on-going series here on My Bella Vita … and whaddyaknow,...
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1 February 2011

Three of my Favorite Calabrian Villages

So you want to visit Calabria? Great … I think everyone should. But where do you want to go? What do you want to see? What do you want to...
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27 January 2011

Southern Italy Snapshots: Sicily

A couple of weeks ago we kicked off our Southern Italy Snapshots series with five beautiful Flickr pictures of Calabria. Today, we are heading 10 kilometers off of the mainland...
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18 January 2011

Travel Tip Tuesday: How to Dress for Winter in Southern Italy

I’ve written a lot over the last year about how to pack and what to wear when you are in Italy, including how not to look like a super tourist,...
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13 January 2011

Southern Italy Snapshots: Calabria

While it is always fun to travel around Italy snapping shots and capturing the bel paese in all of her thousands-year-old glory, sometimes it is fun to take a look...
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