I’ve got just a few weeks before the entire family : Steve(husband),
Chelsea (22 year old daughter) and Ryan ( 17 year old son); leaves Texas for our maiden trip to our new
vacation home in Guardia. Everyone is very
excited and I am a bit nervous as I worry a bit .. will everyone love it? how will everyone survive without tv’s and Xboxes?
The house is completely ready (Thank you Pasquale!) as we’ve
added another bed in the second bedroom (picked it up 2nd hand) and
added a fold out couch. So we can sleep 6 people comfortably now. The internet is
up and functioning completely so the idea is to take a 10 day family vacation
and then Steve and I will work from Italy and extend our stay to a full month.
While the last few trips have been about getting the house
ready, this trip will be all about sightseeing and taking many day trips to soak
in as much of Italy as possible. My
shortlist so far includes:
The Amalfi Coast
Isle of Capri
Ruins of Pompeii
Naples
Rome – all of it!
Hiking in Matesse
The Palace in Caserta
The thermal baths in Telese Terme
The list keeps growing, and we’ll likely run out of days and
hopefully leave excited about the next time we return. I want to keep a healthy balance between
enjoying the quiet pace of Guardia and trying to see everything at once. (which
is traditionally how I’ve attacked our family vacations). So no real agenda..
just possibilities.
Just as the last time I was in Guardia, our good friends the
Orso’s are excitedly waiting for the arrival of the entire family! The other expats are exchanging emails daily,
comparing who is going to be in guardia on what days to see which days are
overlapping, and of course the party planning has already begun in full force!!!
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Can't wait to get this gang back together this summer!! |
This summer, Guardia will be abuzz with 7 different families
(all will be there at the same time!) that have purchased homes in Guardia in the
last few months.. It has been a labor of love for many, thank you so much to
the people of Guardia who have taken us in like family and made it feel like
home from day one!
Writing this blog is such a joy for me because it is a small
way to say thank you to a community that has been so kind, welcoming, and
generous to me, and has given me a wonderful creative outlet!!
Currently a small collaborative non-profit US/Italian “live”
production is under way.. not sure if there will be anybody listening, but
it should prove to be great fun and another opportunity to do and learn
something new! I’ll keep everyone posted
on the progress.
I will leave you all with some of the must see highlights
that I absolutely will not miss:
Ciao!
