The area covered by the Cinque Terre National Park includes a number of even smaller towns up above the coastline that give a totally different sense of coastal Mediterranean life. Places like Campiglia, San Bernardino, and Volastra. Far from the madding crowds, these tiny hamlets offer spectacular views of the […]
Cinque Terre
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With the arrival of the first nice weather and the first important holidays (Easter on April 20th, Liberation Day, the 25th of April; May Day on May 1st) the people have started to pour into Levanto. The first wave of tourists is always a great pleasure here, a promise of […]
I take a lot of inspiration from my neighbor Antonio, not only because he gardens what for me would be an impossibly large plot with graceful, effortless ease, but because I have also seen the results of his efforts. No matter what my tomatoes or yellow peppers look like, they […]
Last night (Saturday), we were out for dinner with a bunch of other families from our older daughter’s nursery school class celebrated the impending beginning of the school year tomorrow. Downtown Levanto was hopping with people even in late September. Restaurants were full, bars were doing brisk business, the weather […]
Oh, but I was forgetting … for those of you who aren’t quite ready to give up completely on the summer, there’s one final beach party scheduled for Saturday night (September 21) on the Levanto beach.
Perhaps it was for the onslaught of house guests, perhaps for the onslaught of tourists, perhaps for nothing more than the hot sun calling me to the beach, but it has been ages since I wrote anything on this blog. And now it is late summer in Levanto (in truth, […]
I have to admit that the reality of closing in on age 40, combined with the fact of having two daughters under age 5, makes it very unlikely that I will take advantage of the following event in Levanto, but that doesn’t mean that y’all shouldn’t get out there and […]
Ligurians do not have the reputation of being the most affable of people, and they certainly don’t win any awards for chattiness. I would say that in general, Levanto lives up to this generalization, though I think it’s important to recognize that this lack of sociability does not mean that […]
When we moved into our new home in the village of Le Ghiare outside Levanto, we inherited a water pump. All our new neighbors were complimentary about our luck to have said device for the following reason: with that pump you can water your entire garden without paying for municipal […]
We here at Voyager have a passion for traditional agricultural practices and organic foods. (Don’t believe me? Check out our study abroad and alumni tour packages!) And so it is nice that we live in a place that, perhaps more out of necessity than sheer desire, still supports and practices […]