I subscribe to this daily app called TimeHop. The essence of it is that it serves up your social media check-ins and postings from prior years. Yesterday TimeHop told me that: 3 years ago I was in Virginia at a softball tournament, 2 years ago I was working in NYC, and 1 year ago I…
Let me start by saying I have no idea what day of the week it is. I overheard someone in the lobby this morning talking about potentially having trouble getting from Naples home. WHAT. so, I cancelled my last half hour of water gawking and ran to the train station. Strike starts at 9 and…
I’m up early for breakfast just like normal. The roosters are crowing. The sun is rising over the mountains. The fog is slowly burning off. But Mount Vesuvius is nearly completely hidden by the fog. It’s not that far away and yet it is completely indistinguishable that there is a volcano behind that seamless layer…
I’ve come to accept that you can’t do everything you think you should do on vacation. I’m in Sorrento still and probably only did 50% of the things you are “supposed to do” while you are here. I didn’t make it to Positano and I didn’t make it to Pompei. I’m completely fine with it.…
If I ever wondered where I should be living and spending my days, today was a resounding reminder that it is near the ocean. There is something about seeing large bodies of water (lakes barely count) that literally makes my heart beat faster. I can’t get enough of it. Ever. Last night I went to…
Today I spent about 5 hours travelling. Maybe more. My friend Enzo picked me up at 10 am and I checked into the hotel in Sorrento at 4pm. It was a long day of travelling…. on a range of trains for sure. But I’ll get to that. Last night after much talk and deliberation, I…
After I wrote yesterday’s post, I went back to my room with the odd inclination to turn on the tv. I had only turned on the tv one other time while I was here and it wasn’t a successful attempt – but something made me do it. While I’ve been here, I’ve ignored all of…
With each “city” that I arrive at, I am constantly amazed at how cute each of them is in their own ways. By this point, I’ve been to Venice, Florence, Monterosso, Vernazza, Manarola, Siena, Montepulciano … and a few train stations in between. Cortona was one that I was really excited for but not for…
When I first started to vocalize plans for this trip to Italy, I heard a fair amount of advice – but the one thing that really stood out among the tips was to visit Montepulciano. It didn’t seem as though it would be super easy to do however…. Primarily based on my guidebook. When I…
I’m already in bed… tired from a day trip to Montapulciano. I’ll write a better post about it tomorrow (perhaps) but here are some pictures to show that I’m not lying.
