Back in Action--- Kinda

I had a friend visiting from the States for the last 10 days. We spent 5 days here in Venice and then 5 down in Positano. This was her first time in both places, although she has been to Italy twice before. We had a great time--she was here for the famous Redentore Festival and then got to visit my favorite place in the world with me. Yey! We had a great time in Positano. We lucked out and my usual pensione gave us a great room with a fantastic balcony and the weather was perfect. I was sad to make such a quick trip, especially considering the airplane prices, but was was relaxing and special nonetheless. We ate good food, went on nice boat rides, sunbathed, ate many a caponatas, and partied until late.

View from the balcony at sunset.


Most special and important of all, I met two of my very favorite bloggers-- Niki and Annika. Niki lives in Positano and I knew from her blog that Annika would be there at that time. On my last evening I saw them in the square near the beach, and I probably scared them half to death when I introduced myself. I was starstruck! I never read blogs before running across Niki's about 6 months ago. I read it from start to finish in a shockingly short amount of time. Gius made fun of me as I would laugh over the pictures she posted of friends of mine in Positano. From there I got into a couple of other blogs (NYC/Caribbean Ragazza, Michellana, Bell'Avventura and dove mi porta il cuore) and have been making my way through the expat world in Italy ever since!!

Tomorrow I have another friend coming for 12 days. I love that I have friends who want to come and visit, but I admit its hard not having a moment alone or with Gius for so much time---especially when there are three of us and a cat living in 30 square meters. Uffa. I hope to make it down to Posi again as 5 days is not nearly enough, but we'll see how work and plane tickets look.