I was greeted in Amalfi the other evening by a row of new ticket booths for boat tours and the boats that run between the cities on the Amalfi Coast and to the islands. While they are certainly all fancy and orderly, I really don't care for them at all. Where the old wooden booths with their ...
Tempting Tuesday: Sorrento’s Surprising Duomo
I guess I have Sorrento on the mind these days, and I have been thinking back to my last visit there on a beautiful day at the end of January. I had walked by the Duomo of Sorrento on previous visits, but hadn't been there while the church was open. Walking into a church I haven't visited before is ...
How to spend six hours at the JFK airport
I had somehow convinced myself that my flight for Rome left at 2:30pm. When I got off the plane from Minneapolis last Friday and saw on the flight departure screens that my flight to Rome left at 4:30pm, I very quickly realized my already long 4 hour layover had just become a 6 hour layover. Uffa! ...
Sunday Shout-out: Welcome to Sorrento Leanne!
After a perfectly uneventful day of travel, I am very happily back home on the Amalfi Coast. Both of my flights left early, I had time to go look at the Saarinen TWA Flight Center (exterior only), had lots of space on the JFK to Roma flight, my mound of luggage arrived safely, and we hit no traffic ...