The Blue Tiny Fiat

I LOVED this car.
It was just TINY!
It was a Fiat.

Marina Piccola

The streets in capri are on the hill side and they are very very very narrow. So narrow they are that the tiny buses hardly fit.
While I was there I heard this man conplain about how narrow the rodes were and how getting anywhere took longer because you had to wait for one side of cars to pass before passing yourself (in some parts). Anyways he started talking about how he would fix this if he lived here.
At that point I thought, "Thank GOD! You don't live here! You idiot! That is the charm of the island, its imperfections. Besides if you lived here where would you be in such a hurry to go?!" These are the types of things that annoy the hell out of people about "us" Americans. We always think we know better....

Capri- Our Favorite restaurant!

This is our favorite restaurant in Capri. We actually thought of doing the reception to our wedding here. Thats how much we loved it! The wine was awesome, the service, the tiramisu, the food. There was a waiter here whom actually kept making bird noises everytime he passed us cause we were not only drunk off wine but also from love and it was just so darn obvious.

Brilliant Skies in the Mediterrenean Sea

This is a picture I took on the way from Capri
to Positano. We went by boat. Actually there is a funny little story about this. We were going to Positano and missed the town. We ended up in another city called Amalfi. Where we took a bus back to Positano.
No one else but me loves this picture....

city of a thousand steps

Shopping in Positano

Mornings in Positano....

Positano

It is at moments like this when I wonder why humans ever thought the world flat....
This is our view from the balcony in the Positano hotel room.

Positano

This is the view from our hotel room in Positano.
I love Positano it is a town on a hillside. Everything is up and down a thousand steps! So if you are going out you really have to think it over. I bought the perfect sandals here and pair of linen pants too. This is the perfect town to come to buy and decorate a kids room. There are so many little stores with dolls of fairies and goblins and gnomes.

Castles in Naples...

The shores of Naples facing Capri (which is near enough to see on a clear day) are full of beautiful castles.

Old man In the Meditterenean Sea

La Dolce Vita.....

No worries. Just rowing.

Napoli Napoli

The people here are like family. There is a familiarity between everyone here. No one is going to have any trouble telling you that you are crazy or that you are doing something wrong.
It was weird, everytime I saw old people in Naples I felt like they were my grand parents.

Also I had never seen so many old and young people kissing in the streets. Really it was just sooooo romantic. No exxageration.

Napoli....

I (Isa) have a very soft spot for Napoli. A lot of people trying to be stuck up put down this city cause it is just REAL. The rich the poor the gypsies Everyone is mixed here like a soup. It is a giant beautiful city. It is the gateway to many beautiful places, like the Amalfi coast and Sicily and other countries.
I lived here for 2 months and I definitely discovered the Napolitan in me.

In another words I LOVE NAPLES!

Lost in Roma!

This picture is of Isa and Carlos LOST in Roma...
Isa was driving a MoPed all over Rome and NO ONE DIED.
The pope called it a miracle..
hehehe
;)

La Pieta by Michelangelo (nel Vatticano)

This marble sculpture was done by Michelangelo. It is ofcourse, the Virgin Mary holding Jesus after he died....

Piazza di Spagna - Roma

Our hotel was up the streets from here.

A little walk towards the left takes you to those famouse steps that you see in commercials all the time.

School of Athens by Raffaelo nel Vaticano

Uhm just in case you DON"T know this painting is in the Vatican. It was painted by Raphaelo (no not the teenage mutant ninja turtle) in the Renaissance. He painted the greek masters in the image of his collegues. Michaelangelo is sitting right in the middle on the steps. Leornardo is in the middle background.

Citta del Vaticano (Roma, Italia)

Ahhh! Dear old Vatican City....
It sure is beautiful.

Gothic Sienna

I have always loved gargoyles.
They are all over Sienna.

Central Piazza

The Central Piazza

Gone Shopping...
Will be back....
hmmmm lets see... How about
NEVER??!!!!!

The Central Tower

This tower is in the central piazza of Sienna.
This piazza is right in the smack middle of the city of Sienna which is literally a MAZE. The piazza is full of fabulous restaurants and spectacular shopping that an american girl can never imagine. I am not talking Forever21 next to Anthropologie here. I am talking about Versacci, Gucci, Dolce and Gabbana, Roberto Cavalli.. etc etc.....
Then the cofee, the cheese, the pasta... I can just lick my lips remembering...
Carlos actually managed to convince me to climb the narrowest stairs up this tower by the way. The stairs were so narrow sometimes I found it hard to breathe. In order for people to pass by you had to stand on a corner.
The things girls do for men!

Tower Views

This is the oldest if not the tallest tower in Sienna.

Tower Views

Spirally Spirally Spirally!

This is how narrow the stairs were.
You could hardly tell what was up or down

Spirally Spirally Spirally!

Tower Views

This looks like something the HuntchBack of Sienna
might have admired for a long part of his life.

View from the Tower

Some of the tower windows were barred some not....

Sienna

Sienna is so gothic in its architecture that the first time Isa visited she decided that if she ever became a vampire thats where she would live. It is just so gothic that it is creepy.

San Gimigiano

San Gimigiano is a very small town surrounded by a wall.
This was the town they used to film the movie "Under the Tuscan Sun". Anyways it is a tiny town full of small shops and I think it has the most church towers than anyother town in Tuscany.
San Gimigiano is somewhere between Florence and Sienna.
There is a very cute town right before it called Poggibonsi. Imagine telling people you are from a town call Poggibonsi.

San Gimigiano

Carlos took this photo of us in a restaurant in San
Gimigiano. The restaurant had red lighting and thats
why the picture came out like this. Like any restaurant in
Italy this one had great food.

We flew from New York----> Milan--->Rome (2 days) ---> Naples (2 days)--->Capri (3 days)---> Rome--> Sienna-->SanGimigiano (1/2)--->Sienna-->Rome--->New York City!