I took this photo in a Naples back street on an amazing guided Vespa tour of the Italian city. My guide, an archaeologist called Emilio, collected me from my hotel and took me around the main sites as well as some less well-known places in the city. Here we are just about to go in to […]
Christmas cribs in Naples
There’s an ancient street in the historic centre of Naples where Christmas preparations never stop. Via San Gregorio Armeno, also known as ‘Christmas alley’, is famous for the sculpted nativity scenes (i presepi) which its artisan workshops produce and which are popular across Italy and beyond. I’m there on a sunny day one April on a […]
No worries on a Vespa tour of Naples
As I stepped out of my hotel I was feeling panicky. I was in Naples, the eldest was alone upstairs in our room, and I was setting off with an Italian man I’d never met for a tour of a city with a chaotic reputation. What’s more, the tour was by Vespa, and I still […]
Sorrento and Ravello
I’m in Italy this week on a fabulous family tour around the Bay of Naples with my teen, as guests of The Adventure Company. I’m missing my husband and the youngest, of course, but we’re having a great time. We started off in the lively city of Naples, are now in the more relaxed Sorrento […]
