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Stay In Serene Sorrento
Finishing Our 10 Week Italy Trip With A Stay In Serene Sorrento The trip from Matera to serene Sorrento was quicker and easier than we thought it would be. This time we opted to take […]
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Day Trips From Sorrento
Day Trips From Sorrento Along The Amalfi Coast We spent the last 3 weeks of our 10 week trip to Italy in an apartment high over Sorrento. Our lazy days alternated with day trips from […]
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Exploring The Amalfi Coast By Boat
Enjoy The Amalfi Coast By Boat During our 3 week stay in Sorrento in late October we planned to tour the Amalfi Coast by boat. We wanted to re-visit our favourite seafood restaurant in the marina […]
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Nature’s Power – Pompeii and Vesuvius
Day Trip to Pompeii and Vesuvius from Sorrento For our 3 week stay in Sorrento, our apartment high on the hill about Sorrento looked out at Pompeii and Vesuvius. At first the top of the volcano […]
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Matera Sassi During the Balloon Festival
A Weekend Stop At The Matera Sassi Matera was not on our original travel plans for our 10 weeks in Italy . Â But several people suggested it as a stop enroute to Sorrento for the […]
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Explore The Puglia Region From Lecce
Explore The Puglia Region From Lecce Around The Heel of the Boot After leaving Pescara our next stop let us explore the Puglia region from Lecce. On our drive south, we stopped for lunch stop in Mare di […]
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Searching For A Swimming Hole in Puglia
Finding A Swimming Hole in Puglia South Of Otranto Staying in Lecce for a week, we headed out and found water and a swimming hole in Puglia!  We visited the town of Otranto and saw the […]
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Otranto Crypt – The Beautiful and the Not So Much
Day Trip To Visit the Otranto Crypt At our full day cooking course to learn more about Southern Italian cuisine on our stay in Lecce, we were told not to miss a visit to Otranto Crypt while […]
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Truly Enchanting Trulli Adventure
Wander The Countryside To Find Enchanting Trulli Houses We visited the white hill town of Ostuni in the morning and then headed along little twisty turny country roads towards the enchanting trulli houses in Alberobello. […]
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Ostuni The White Town On The Hill
Heading North From Lecce On this day, we backtracked north from our stay in Lecce and saw the sights we drove past on our long drive south from Pescara to Lecce. We had several target […]