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lately:: teens, tennis, friends, naples, lake and orders

family , kid projects , outdoor adventures , papa • Sep 10, 2021

August here was, once again, like every August here but even worse this year, HOT. So stupid gross humid hot. Record hot. We went to cooler Slovenia for awhile, but we also had to come home. Also the…

bologna and trieste

family , touristing • Aug 17, 2021

We went on our Leave vacation! Goodbye hot Naples! We took a road trip north to Slovenia, about a 10 hour drive. We stopped for the first night in Bologna to break up the drive, then the next…

ionian sea weekend

beautiful things , family , outdoor adventures , touristing • Jul 18, 2021

After Matt returned from Ukraine, we drove 3 hours south to the border of Basilicata and Calabria, at the “instep” of Italy’s boot, on the Ionian Sea. We LOVE this sea– it is so clean, clear, and calm,…

sorrento

family , touristing • Jul 9, 2021

We visited Sorrento again, and just wandered around being tourists. We got a bit drunk from the limoncello samples we kept getting, since we were the only tourists in the shop (usually it is packed full of tourists,…

umbria

beautiful things , family , outdoor adventures • Jun 4, 2021

For Memorial Day weekend, we took a trip to the region of Umbria. It’s a green area of Italy, in the country, the lower-class sister to Tuscany (where everything is fancier and more expensive). Umbria makes olive oil,…

lately:: restaurants, hikes, scouts, chess and friends

family , kid projects , outdoor adventures • May 26, 2021

A date with Nolan, Carney hikes with Matt and Addie, a pizza date on the sea, Ashton with new friends, Boy Scouts back to meetings and a campout, and chess club! Ashton has also been babysitting, and the…

fish with nolan

family , food and exercise • May 4, 2021

We had a fun day with our friend Nolan recently. We visited the fish market in Pozzuoli and made a lovely meal at home, featuring escarole (scarola), mussels (cozze), and pasta with squid. Afterward, we walked it off…

castellabate

beautiful things , family , outdoor adventures , touristing • Feb 17, 2021

For President’s Day weekend, we decided to go somewhere. We have to stay in our region of Campania still, but lucky for us, Campania is big and beautiful. We visited the Cilento coast, about 2 hours south of…

local adventures

beautiful things , family , outdoor adventures , touristing • Feb 8, 2021

Even staying in our local area, there are adventures and beautiful things everywhere. I just need a little push sometimes to get out and find them. Here are a few. Matt and I went out for lunch…

christmas, in

beautiful things , family • Dec 31, 2020

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