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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. 

8 September 2010

Real Recipe Wednesday: Pasta Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino

If I had to point out one thing I just hate about living in Italy it is this … the food is so damn addictive. It also ruins your taste...
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7 September 2010

Travel Tip Tuesday: Calabria’s Airports

Many Calabria-bound travelers are unsure of how to get to Calabria without either driving from their first point in Italy or taking a train from their international arrival point, which...
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6 September 2010

Tips for Adjusting to Life When You are Married to a Foreigner

I get a lot of hits and a good deal of personal emails from people who are either involved in a long-distance relationship with an Italian or are planning to...
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2 September 2010

Italian Coffee Terms Explained

With the recent influx of English-speaking guests visiting our B&B, it has come to my attention everyone might not get Italian coffee. Sure, Starbucks taught us the words “Cappuccino,” “Macchiato,”...
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31 August 2010

Travel Tip Tuesday: Tips for Reducing Stress When Traveling

Traveling-walking through a new country, adapting to a new culture, learning new words or phrases, dining on new-and sometimes unidentifiable-food … it is all part of the experience travelers crave...
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30 August 2010

A Few of my All-Time Favorite Italy-themed Posts

I’ve spent hundreds of hours over the last few years reading blog posts and articles about Italy-many of which were written by my real-life expat friends and blogging buddies. Some...
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26 August 2010

Continental Airlines: Review of a Customer Service Experience

With my Auntie Adventures a not-so fading memory, I now have time to go through my “draft” folder here at My Bella Vita and pull out some posts that are...
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24 August 2010

Travel Tip Tuesday: How to Pack a Carry-on Suitcase

Last week’s Travel Tip Tuesday post listed five reasons why you should switch to carry-on only-and Facebook fans and commenters listed many more. After that post, I had a few...
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20 August 2010

Watch Your Mouth! Three Words You Shouldn’t Say in Italian

Some of my favorite-and most popular-posts are about the complex, intriguing, sometimes difficult, but always charming … bella lingua italiana. A couple of months ago, Jessica from Why Go Italy...
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18 August 2010

If You are What You Eat, What Does That Say About Sicily’s Milza?

Earlier this week I wrote a guest post for Mangia Monday, a weekly column over at Wanderlust Women Travel. The site’s owner, Lisa Fantino was interested in how Sicilians are...
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16 August 2010

Restaurant Review: Villa Marinella in La Sila National Park

There are many places you can go when you are traveling in Calabria near Catanzaro … you could see Le Castella, visit the ruins in Roccelletta or spend a morning...
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13 August 2010

Auntie Adventures: “But, Cici … It’s the Real Deal!”

For many kids, spending a month in southern Italy-without their parents-is a summer they’ll never forget. Well, it’s also a summer this auntie won’t forget soon. So far, we’ve talked...
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