Yesterday I left Italy and headed to Romania for the next stop on my “Freedom Life” tour… (oh, and it was a good thing I flew yesterday as today, Romanian air traffic controllers decided to go on strike to demand better working conditions). Sitting at Ciampino Airport, it was interesting to see the armed guards patrolling …
A few weeks ago, my friend Lehan and I drove up to Castelli Romani – in particular to Lake Nemi… This was perhaps one of my most favourite places in my entire trip to Italy… …by the way, even the signs for deer here look very “Italian”! LOL!
Well, after a fascinating stay of almost three months here in Italy, today is my last day before I relocate to Romania for a month. …and what a gift – this morning there was a procession on the main street below, complete with flag-throwing! I had only ever seen that in the movies – and …
What an absolutely fabulous five days we had driving from Lido di Ostia down to Amalfi and Ravello, back up through Positano and Sorrento… (more items now checked off my Bucket List! http://luxuriousnomad.com/bucket-list/) Our first stop after having picked up a rental car and leaving Ostia was Terracina, an ancient Roman ‘colonia maritima’. Atop the impressive hill …
…and no, there are no typos in the heading… LOL! Back in the 1980s, did you ever play the arcade game, Frogger? You know, the one where you had to get a frog to successfully cross a highway without being squished by the traffic zooming along… Well, here in Italy, Frogger is a daily way …
Backstory… Back a number of years ago, I had just received some rather devastating news from a business partner and so decided I needed to leave Vegas for a while to clear my head and work out “what next”. I packed up my beloved car and headed off on what became a three-month, 8,000 mile road …
I am writing this while sitting at a Chinese/Thai restaurant near home here in Lido di Ostia. When I awoke this morning after my huuuuuuge day yesterday exploring Rome, I was ravenously hungry and decided, rather than face the massssses of people at the various markets (that are delightfully all within two blocks of home), …
Today I decided to go exploring Roma! First, it was a twenty-minute walk to the train station and what started out as rather a hazy day ended up being brilliant sunshine by the time I reached Rome – just over an hour later. Actually, my day involved walking, train, walking, train, walking, bus, walking, bus, walking, …
It’s market day in Catona… Hmmmm, no, wait – that’s the line in “Under the Tuscan Sun”! …but that’s what it feels like… I feel as though I am alternately living the scripts from “Eat, Pray, Love” and “Under the Tuscan Sun”… Anyway, yes, today (Saturday morning) is market day here in Ostia. In addition …
Sitting out on my balcony, working on Bridgit’s next book and I hear a commotion down on street level, getting louder and louder, closer and closer… So, I grabbed my camera and looked down to see what was happening… It was an anti-mafia rally! Turns out (after being then curious enough to do some research) since …
