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jean and elizabeth: ruins, sea glass, caserta, beach, pizza, vomero, paestum and cribbage

family , touristing • Oct 27, 2021

We pretty much did something every day while Jean and Elizabeth were here, even if it was only a trip to walk on the beach or a travel day. We did Herculaneum (a smaller, more intact version of…

jean and elizabeth: concert, beach, pozzuoli, amalfi and naples

family , touristing • Oct 27, 2021

Jean and Elizabeth, Matt’s mom and sister, finally got here after a cancelled trip in early 2020. They got here and we hit the ground running… quite literally, actually, since the route home from the airport detoured us…

lately: scouts, food fest, naples

family • Oct 26, 2021

Lots of Scouts for Cedar, including becoming the new Scouts Leader (Senior Patrol Leader). An international food festival at our local NATO base. LOTS of food and EVEN MORE alcohol from all kinds of European booths– it…

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…

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