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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

Nineteen Days into

the New Year and I am still dreaming up resolutions. Not off to a good start, am I? I am convinced if I could only get “caught up” with my...

I Now Present to You

the new Mr. and Mrs… Isn’t that fun to say?? I mean, uh, write?? It is! It is! And, on this, our two month anniversary, it only seems fitting. Well,...

Some People Say

no matter where you go, your troubles find you. I believe it. From mid-September through the end of 2007, I had limited Internet access. Ya’ll know that! That is why...

All Because Two People

fell in love…” This is one of the newest “wedding expressions” out on the market, and, while I must admit it does remind me somewhat of a sappy old Brad...

So Much Has Happened

since I left Italy more than three months ago, that I am having a hard time narrowing down an appropriate point of interest on which to write. Not so much...

Quando la Vita e Pazza

that is when you need an outlet! And, let me tell you, folks, chatting with you on My Bella Vita is the outlet I have missed the most. The last...

Some Things Just Don’t Mix

And, wedding invitations and the Italian Post are two of them. I know, I know…it isn’t Wedding Wednesdays, so what are we doing talking about WEDDINGS??? (And, I am counting...

Wedding Wednesdays Part 5: Something Else?

  “Casa senza fimmina ‘mpuvirisci” (Sicillian proverb)  Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue … As if brides don’t have enough “somethings” to search for prior to the Big...

Trendsetters – WW Part 4

“Meglio il marito senz’amore, che con gelosia.” Taking a cue from celebrity brides, or perhaps just to be a tad different, couples are choosing creative alternatives to timeless wedding traditions....

San Antonio, Baby – Triple T Week 3

In honor of my home state, I present to you… Five Things To Do in San Antonio Standing proudly as the icon of Texas independence, and nestled on the banks...

So, It’s That Time Again

Time to pack up those cherry-red suitcases and head back over the big, blue pond. Another trip home. A trip, that after eight long months I should be ready to...

The Other’Cane

We all remember the graphic scenes that unfolded before our eyes as New Orleans, and other areas of the Gulf Coast, suffered through Hurricane Katrina. Katrina was a massive storm,...
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