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Italy 2014 Day 16: Goodbye, Salerno! And a final meal at L’antico Molo (Fiumicino)

Posted on March 5, 2014 | Leave a comment

Well, it was finally time to get ready to say goodbye not just to Salerno but to Italy: our last full day before flying home had arrived. And after over two weeks of amazing adventures (and food), we were quite honestly getting ready to go home. Exhaustion and a blasted stomach virus we seemed to be passing back and forth had us both worn down and ready to catch up on some needed rest in our own bed in New Jersey.

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Italy 2014 Day 15: Amalfi Coast drive and Osteria Angolo Masuccio (Salerno)

Posted on February 21, 2014 | Leave a comment

Fortunately it looked as though the weather was going to co-orperate with us on our last full day staying in Salerno, as our plan was to take a ride along the Amalfi Coast. Our host at Salerno Centro, Francesco, would be our driver and we were hoping to make it to three of the major cities along the coast: Amalfi, Ravello and Positano.

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Italy 2014 Day 14: Paestum…and a Pasta Lesson!

Posted on February 15, 2014 | Leave a comment

I was still feeling a little under the weather when we got up this morning, but there would be no lying around in bed today. We had a busy schedule ahead of us: a tour by car south of Salerno to Paestum, with a stop at a buffalo mozzarella farm along the way. And that was just for the morning and early afternoon; in the evening we would be joining our hosts at Salerno Centro for dinner at Lena and Pasquale’s house and a lesson in pasta-making.

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Italy 2014 Day 13: De Gustibus and Ristorante Santa Lucia (Salerno)

Posted on February 13, 2014 | Leave a comment

Unfortunately I did not have a good night’s sleep on my first night in Salerno. It wasn’t the fault of our comfortable room and bed at Salerno Centro, but seemed to be a double-whammy of having an unexpected garlic intolerance attack after last night’s dinner (most likely because of the steak) and a stomach virus, given the sweetie would come down with the same symptoms of a few days later. Needless to say, I didn’t wake up feeling my best and it was an effort to eat any of the lovely breakfast waiting for us. A little yogurt and homemade coffee cake did settle the stomach a little bit, but that was all I could manage.

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Italy 2014 Day 12: Antica Pizzeria Vicolo Della Neve (Salerno)

Posted on February 9, 2014 | Leave a comment

It was time at last to say goodbye to Naples and head on to the next destination for our trip: the city of Salerno.  This was going to be an interesting experience, as neither of us had ever been to Salerno before or really knew what to expect. I was hoping I’d made a good choice as well in deciding to explore the Amalfi Coast from this location instead of the generally more popular (with tourists at least) town of Sorrento. Our guide books said next to nothing about Salerno, but I’d read online that it tended to be more lively in the wintertime than other coastal towns, it would save us time in heading further south to see Paestum, and conveniently it was also directly on the Frecciarossa high speed line connecting to Rome and Naples.

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