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Travel Tuesday

Travel Tuesday: Venice – Queen of the Adriatic

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Travel Tuesday

Travel Tuesday: Find yourself in nature in the Dolomites

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Travel Tuesday

Travel Tuesday: Verona

The next stop on my Ciao Amici trip in  the North was Verona. Even though I grew up in Italy, every city & town still surprise me. Every city, every town, every street has its own beauty and history. They are all different, but at the same time equally beautiful. When I think of Verona […]

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Travel Tuesday

Travel Tuesday: Lago di Como

Today we are traveling to Lago Di Como, located in Northern Italy in the Lombardia (Lombardy) Region. One of the things I found most interesting about this area is that I started Ciao Amici’s Northern Italy trip in Milan, a crowded, bustling city, and within an hour’s drive, I was in a completely different atmosphere […]

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Culture and Traditions

Christmas Time in Southern Italy

We had river fish, vongole (clams), eel and a lot of baccala! (dried salted cod). On Christmas Day we did not receive gifts. We would go to Mass and then we would go visit our family. The kids would especially like to visit relatives they hadn’t seen in a while because the relatives would give […]

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Italian Food

Time to Harvest the grapes

When I think about this time of year in Italy growing up my initial memory is the smell of fresh wine all over my home town. It’s a nice memory because I always equated school with grapes. When I was young school didn’t start in September like the USA it started Oct.1, the same time […]

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