One may find it difficult to ever leave a city as vivid and alive as Naples. But the truth is, there is a wealth of beauty and culture to be experienced just beyond the city, which makes Naples an excellent base for exploring other areas of Campania. Many hotels in Naples will make arrangements for […]
Italy as a whole is a top destination for many reasons: the gastronomic delights, centuries of history, and diverse scenery, to name just a few. My main reason for wanting to visit Italy is a bit more personal. I guess you can say it’s in my blood for I am Italian-American. I can trace my […]
It’s been said that Naples is a beautiful woman in a dirty dress. Such a description could not be more fitting. Everything you’ve heard about Naples is true: it’s chaotic and gritty. However, in keeping with the woman-in-a-dirty-dress analogy, a person’s true beauty comes from within, not what is on the outside. Naples is the […]
There is a new Twitter travel chat in town. It’s something to be excited about and I’m proud to be involved. It’s called #JAchat and it was started by my friend and fellow travel blogger, Pola Henderson, of Jetting Around. The main focus of Pola’s blog is city travel and culture and that theme has […]
Who doesn’t love Fridays? I mean, there are so many reasons to look forward to the end of the week and one of those reasons, for me, is #FriFotos. This week’s theme is URBAN. So let’s have a look at some of my favorite cities in the world, shall we? I could go on and […]
My mother keeps reminding me that we’ve been home from Italy for 2 ½ months now and she is “still waiting for the list of all the places we went to.” So, Mom, here is your list, complete with photos to refresh your memory. For everyone else, please consider it a photographic timeline of our […]
Jessica at WhyGo Italy recommended Hotel Europeo, among others, for my family’s stay in Napoli. Jessica has spent a fair amount of time in Napoli and is quite knowledgeable about all things Italy, so I trust her judgment. Up front, Hotel Europeo offers everything we wanted for our stay in Napoli: location in the historic […]
There is enough to see and do in Napoli to keep the adults occupied and happy, but what about the children? I’ll be honest; when I was doing research for our trip, I did not find a whole lot of information about things to do with kids in Napoli so I wasn’t sure what to […]
Our Italy itinerary was taking shape. We knew we had a week in Tuscany around which to work and that we wanted to spend at least one more week seeing other parts of Italy. But where? Rome was a given since that’s where we were flying in and out of. Where else could we go […]
