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…
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…
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…
Last week, as the news warned about imminent lockdown, I started to freak out a little. I know our holidays will be spent at home this year, but I knew that Italy was still OPEN. So I scooped…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
The Boy Scouts went on their first campout since last year, and, since it was a white-water rafting trip in the mountains of Calabria (about 3 hours south), I joined them. It wasn’t exactly camping like I would…
