Our Towns is really our Tale of Two Houses. Ah, the complex fascination of life overseas (challenging, frustrating, but so blessed)! In fact, new acquaintances often ask, “So where are you from?” Our response? “Um, do you have an easier question?” So, to cut a long story short… Having lived all over the USA and Italy, with aContinue reading “Our Towns: Where is Home?”
Tag Archives: campania region
Where Thrift Reigns: The Italian Village of Thrift
Do you rush out to buy new things or have you learned the art of making do? My husband’s hometown is a village where thrift reigns. Where people have long been used to making do. The current trend toward simplicity and frugality is so normal to them, that they would ask “Is there any other way?” Continue reading “Where Thrift Reigns: The Italian Village of Thrift”
Their First Look at the Americans
One by one they filed in, sitting around the smoky fire in the dark, dingy room. The entire village, it seemed, wanted a look at us — the Americans. While I in turn, through teary, smoke-filled eyes, examined them. Our new town folk, for this was our new home. A village from another era Life in that isolatedContinue reading “Their First Look at the Americans”
Our Home in Italy’s Cilento National Park
My husband’s hometown, Sacco, and our summer home are right in the middle of a national park, is one of the most interesting places in Italy. Interesting because it’s rarely ever visited. Interesting because it’s a striking area of lonely, rugged mountains that stretches into the Tyrrhenian Sea, and forming the southern end of the GulfContinue reading “Our Home in Italy’s Cilento National Park”
Our Italian Summer Village: Beyond Forgotten
There is only one road leading to the isolated town, our summer village. A place little touched by time, technology, or by the frenetic pace of getting ahead. Thirteen years had passed since our last visit. And though fewer and older, the inhabitants somehow seem to have remained much the same. Many of the old and wrinkledContinue reading “Our Italian Summer Village: Beyond Forgotten”
Italy’s Five Best or Most Unusual Museums
Oh no, a boring list of museums? No, not at all! Because it also includes interesting facts so that you can discover what makes these five museums (out of more than 3,000 in Italy) unique! For example, did you know that the man who made one of these museums famous never wanted to do theContinue reading “Italy’s Five Best or Most Unusual Museums”