Tag: castle
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40th and 1/3
Can’t believe we were the first to arrive to Campo! What a sweet start to the reunion/birthday/summer party weekend to have a moment together at the very beginning. The running joke for the weekend was how Seb’s birthday celebration fell on the weekend of Corey’s actual birthday. We celebrated this dynamic duo with feasts and…
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Castel Campo
Trying to keep track of the moments that take your breath away at Castel Campo is hopeless. Tasting the first spoonful of homemade risotto, hearing Saya exclaim ‘cock-a-doodles’ when she’d collect fresh farmhouse eggs, or simply turning potatoes over in a vegetable patch made my heart swoon. The sheer beauty of the week could be…
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Sweetzerland!
I can’t claim credit for the title of this post. Sweetzerland is the name of a chocolate shop that you’ll want to visit when you arrive in Geneva. The author of the NY Times article ’36 Hours in Geneva’ boasts that this is the shop ‘where Russian tourists come to buy chocolate by the kilo’ since…
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A Cold Day Trip to Colchester
Elephants have been my favourite animal since I was about eight years old so I was taken with Colchester’s love for the keystone species as well! We arrived knowing that Colchester is Britain’s oldest recorded town, but didn’t know that when the Roman Emperor Claudius invaded the settlement in 43AD that he brought elephants…
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My post from the Amalfi Coast
To quote my friend, Anna Moyer: “It’s hard to overstate the beauty of the Amalfi coast.” On the bus, every hairpin turn was breathtaking. You’re incredibly high up from the waters below, and the towns living in the mountainside are beautiful as they peak around each curve in the road.
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