September 2014

On our way to Rome we decided to stop at Tivoli and went to Villa D’Este. Of course we had to stop and eat lunch. I loved these little potted pepper plants as centerpieces. How cute is that? Villa D’Este is a huge estate, but you would never know it from the outside. Even the courtyard …

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After Pisa we drove on to Tuscany, which was the part of the trip I was looking forward to the most. Because I’m a gardener, small-scale homesteader, foodie, organic crunchy mama, flower lover and intensely interested in traditional food and living, I couldn’t wait to see how they did it in Tuscany. Everything in Tuscany …

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CINQUE TERRE We took the EARLY vaporetto train out of Venice on Friday morning to go to Cinque Terre, the five lands. It is five picturesque villages along a rocky coast. For hundreds of years the villages were completely isolated from one another, even though they were right next to one another. The jutting, rocky …

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From London we flew to Venice, Italy, from very distinctly fall weather to very distinctly clinging to summer. The weather was gorgeous. We arrived in the morning and went straight to check in at our hotel and get out to see as much as possible. The city was incredible. It was everything I imagined. There …

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London was our first stop on a 3-week trip to London and Italy. Originally the trip was two weeks in Italy, but then Adam needed to go to London for work, so I went too and played tourist while he worked. We made it to London in the early afternoon and checked into our hotel. …

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