Today we have been traveling for 1000 days. I just wanted to mark the occasion. So much to reflect on. So much to unpack. I still haven’t internalized…
To round out our Italy adventure we decided our last stop should be Lecce, all the way down into the heel of the boot, a city of about…
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Day 924 – Matera, Italy – (Part 2) – Historic City Center, Puglian Food, and the rest.
If your only experience of Matera is from photos or travel shows it’s easy to think that the ancient part of the city, the Sassi, is all that…
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Day 924 – Matera, Italy – (Part 1) – Sassi di Matera – An ancient city of troglodytes
Here lies the foundations of human civilizations. A warren of hand carved underground dwellings and structures. These were the literal cave men. The mythical troglodytes of our beginnings.…
The Amalfi Coast has long been one of my travel goals and I was elated to finally get to this region of Italy. Its colorful old houses that…
Directly across the Bay of Naples from Naples is the quaint cliffside town of Sorrento, about 30 miles by the coast, passing the looming Mount Vesuvius as you…
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Day 907 – Naples, Italy – A riot of chaos, diversity, and fold up street pizza.
Naples. A jungle of antiquity and life. An endless reticulated tangling. Layer upon layer. Thin lanes dotted with shrines and gestures for one god until the next. The…
Each region of Italy has a unique style of food and most of it completely unlike the food you will find in an American Italian restaurant. Rome is…
As we’ve travelled throughout Europe over the past few years, there are few places that were not touched and shaped by the ancient Roman Empire. From the UK…
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Day 899 – Rome, Italy – Founded by a guy who sucked on wolf titties. (supposedly)
Rome, according to legend, was founded by Romulus, the child of a vestal virgin raped by Mars, then condemned to death along with his twin brother Remus by…