Have you heard of Portofino?
Portofino is a lovely little town on the Italian Riviera – just south of Genova – Genoa and with only 500 inhabitants. The bay, or rather cove surrounded by mountain/hills all around it makes it a very pretty setting for a day trip or even a romantic weekend.

Here are my Top [...]

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I love Sicily, and it’s competing hard with Puglia to be my favorite region in Italy. This summer unfortunately I won’t be visiting Sicily, as I have the past two years, but I still have quite a few pictures to share.
I already told you about our boat trip around Marettimo Island and the fisherman we [...]

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After the post on a Wedding in Tuscany, I promised to show you what happens when the bride and groom come out of the church. At the bottom of this post I’ve listed who won the Pocket Espresso to Go giveaway!
Usually in an Italian wedding, all the guests wait outside until the couple comes out [...]

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When I lived in Rome, I spent a lot of time on the back of a motorino, scooter. Mainly because I didn’t have a car, most people I knew didn’t have one, either, and those that had a form of transportation had a motorino. The lucky ones had a Vespa.

So if you were getting a [...]

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Friday and Saturday nights in Roman neighborhood Trastevere are extremely busy. So much so that when I actually lived there I rarely was able to sleep in the summer/fall months. Groups stay in Trastevere drinking and carousing until early hours below the windows of people who actually live there. For this reason, it was always [...]

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