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How to Savor Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast at Home
If Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast taught me anything, it’s that La Dolce Vita isn’t something you experience twice a year and then long for the other fifty weeks. It’s a mindset and handful of habits that you can build in to your daily life.
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Why Sorrento is a Great Place to Run (and How I Found a Park Full of Lemons)
For someone who loves to run, a trip is not an interruption of the routine so much as an upgrade of the scenery. There is something magical about seeing a city at your own pace, before the day officially begins. It is the same place everyone else will experience by noon, but you get the quiet, golden-hour version all to yourself.
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The Pasta That Was Worth Taking a Boat To (And How to Bring It Home)
There are meals you remember, and then there are meals that rearrange your idea of what a meal can be. Mine happened on a pebbled beach on the Sorrento Peninsula, somewhere between a swim and applying more sunscreen, and I have been thinking about it ever since.
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Why I Would Return to Sorrento’s Grand Hotel La Favorita
I’ve stayed in plenty of luxury hotels around the world, and I’ll admit it: I have standards. High ones. So when I say the Grand Hotel La Favorita earned a spot on my “I would absolutely come back” list, that means something. Yes, it ranks among the most expensive hotels we’ve ever booked. But by the end of our stay, no one in the family was doing the math anymore. Here’s why.
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Everywhere I ate in Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast
When it comes to food, Italy is famous for the 3 P’s of carbs: pasta, pizza and pane (bread). Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast served up plenty of all three, but there was so much more to discover too, enough to satisfy every craving on the trip.
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Authentic Italian Souvenirs from Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast
One of my favorite things about Sorrento is how much shopping there is to do. I could have spent hours just looking at all the lemon everything, the pottery, the little trinkets that make you feel like you’ve bottled up a piece of the Mediterranean sun. So much to buy, so little time! Check out my complete Sorrento and Amalfi Coast haul.
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