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around here: vesuvio walk, thanksgiving/birthday/christmas-ing, and FOOD

beautiful things , family , kid projects • Dec 9, 2020

A pre-lockdown walk with friends on Monte Vesuvio:: Christmassing:: Thanksgiving-ing:: An online Italian cooking class and shopping with the teacher:: Haircuts:: Vegetable markets and wine-on-tap; we are still always finding new discoveries now…

lockdown beach walks

beautiful things , outdoor adventures • Dec 9, 2020

In addition to hiking, I’ve been walking on the beach lately as well during this lockdown. We live 5 minutes away and now that the lidos (beach resorts) are closed and the weather is cold, the shore in…

lockdown hiking

beautiful things , family , food and exercise , outdoor adventures • Dec 9, 2020

For the past several weeks our region has been under a strict lockdown. Not as bad as the first time in spring, where everything was closed and you couldn’t even leave your house, but a softer version where…

monte faito and molare

beautiful things , family , outdoor adventures • Nov 13, 2020

Back to Monte Faito we went, enjoying its lovely autumn scenery. So many trees and leaves! There were WAY more people there this time than ever before. We walked up to Monte Molare this time and were rewarded…

carney hiking dates

beautiful things , food and exercise , outdoor adventures • Nov 13, 2020

We’ve been to Carney park (a park reserved for US military) a million times for picnics, and although we knew there were hiking trails around the rim (it’s a volcano), we hadn’t really tried to find them. Well,…

ischia girls’ trip

beautiful things , outdoor adventures , touristing • Oct 29, 2020

Ashton and I went on a girls’ overnight trip on the island of Ischia. The region of Campania is not allowing travel beyond our provinces (like a county in the US), but Ischia is in our province! Ischia…

monte faito

beautiful things , family , food and exercise , outdoor adventures • Oct 29, 2020

We went up the mountain on the Funivia and walked around enjoying autumn. It was perfect.…

gran sasso

beautiful things , family , outdoor adventures , touristing • Oct 14, 2020

We went to Gran Sasso National Park in the mountainous Abruzzo region, about 3 hours away from us. We had a really, really good time. Maybe our best family trip yet. We loved everything about it– the towns,…

lately: kayaking, towns, river, hike, food, home and friends

beautiful things , food and exercise , outdoor adventures , touristing • Oct 14, 2020

A kayaking trip for Matt and Ashton while Cedar and I went camping with Scouts:: A trip to Sant’agata dei Goti and a river with a cave:: Matt had a gig, and I joined. We were…

lately: lake, a double date, trampoline, kittens, beach, market, scouts and sky

beautiful things , outdoor adventures • Sep 12, 2020

A lake trip with the Brannons… A double date without the kids! A new trampoline! Our neighbor’s kittens come over to our house regularly… Beach, market, and picnics… Cedar is still doing Boy…

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