Gratitude and Joy, Italy

Day 189 – A Year of Gratitude and Joy – Grotto dello Smeraldo

He headed over to a darkened corner of the cave, illuminated by a light shining into the murky depth.

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Day 188 – A Year of Gratitude and Joy – A Different View

Then we asked each other one of those questions that can’t really be answered: “Do people really go from church to church and art museum to art museum on their vacations?”

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Day 186 – A Year of Gratitude and Joy – Driving in Italy

Let me be clear from the start that driving in Italy is not for the faint-of-heart.

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Day 184 – A Year of Gratitude and Joy – Shopping in Italy

I knew I’d find pieces I loved as soon as we started walking along the shop-filled streets in the towns on the Amalfi Coast.

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Day 183 – A Year of Gratitude and Joy – T is for Tuscany

We could easily have stayed longer … exploring more of the villages, visiting the hometown of Romeo and Juliet, checking out why the cheese here is so delicious, and tasting wine in hundreds of wineries!

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Day 182 – A Year of Gratitude and Joy – S is for San Marino

There’s no castle … like dozens of mountaintops in Italy and throughout Europe … because there was never a king.

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Day 181 – A Year of Gratitude and Joy – Alberobello, Italy

We topped off our stay in one of the original trullo … now with all the modern conveniences.

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Day 180 – A Year of Gratitude and Joy – Truffles (and the Hunt for Them)

By the end of the hunt we’d dug up ten truffles!

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Day 179 – A Year of Gratitude and Joy – The Food in Italy

There is so much to see and do in Italy, but for me, the food is the star of any vacation there.

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Day 177 – A Year of Gratitude and Joy – A Lesson in Wine Tasting

THIS was how wine was to be tasted, and I have to say that even after three decades, I learned that I had been doing it all wrong!