Today is the best day to shop for all vintage items on Etsy. Sunday, Aug. 31st is the first Vintage Market Sale! Check out Etsy.com for great deals on vintage clothes, kitchen items, shoes, decor, etc. Over 60 shops are offering steals and deals! Click on my shop to see some new items I added special for the market event.
One person was inside the church and it happened to be the organ player practicing some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard. And I have just stumbled into it by accident. Let me try and paint the scene for you. I was sitting in a 600 year old Italian church, alone, being treated to a private classical music concert. Every time I got up to leave, another beautiful song would begin and I had to sit back down. It is not something I could really take a picture of but I did take a picture of the little staircase that leads up to the organ. You can get the idea. 
(Coundn't get a good picture but top image is the organ player sitting above the main doorway.)
2. You have to eat at the best restaurants in the evening. You must be sat outside so everybody can see you and you can see everyone. You should be wearing a dress that shows off how tan you are. Italian women must wear their high heels and never flip flops as they are taking their evening strolls or passeggiata. Men wear the preppy sweaters tied around their necks. This was the AMAZING art inside the gazebo at Rapallo:
This is where we went swimming:
While swimming watch out for
these:
We hit t
he markitini in Sarzana and we found the coolest stuff but it just dosen't fit in a suitcase...
Also Pier and his brother Tommy decided to do some fancy dives off the boat like this: 
It's the captain, Emilio, that takes us sailing and his son the first mate, Evio, that cooks all our meals. We have been eating well. Spaghetti with clams in red sauce, grilled fish and potatoes, mozzarella and tomato salad. Emilio and Umberto taking the boat out below:
Our view from the boat at night is lovely! Until tommorrow, a domani.
inner, and the kids are running around on jet skis. Welcome to Rapallo! From now until this weekend we are boat people. (and Jolie is a boat dog). I read in the local paper yesterday that Elton John was docked right here on a yacht called "Hercules". I'm on the look out not just for Elton and David but also for Hercules because it sounds awesomely massive! Anyways, I went up to the top of the boat this morning to watch the sunrise and I saw the other boat people and captains wakening up to morning duties.
Seeing how many weeks this book has been on the best sellers list and considering how many millions of copies it has sold, you have probably already read Eat, Pray, Love, but I have just finished it. I review it here on my Italian blog because the author spends one third of the book examining herself by exploring Italy. The book is broken up into thirds and I found it like 3 totally different books just with the same main protagonist in each story. Therefore the whole book was good but choppy but it's the Italian part that I could read again and again. I kept reading the mouth-watering and artful description of Neapolitan pizza over and over and then aloud to Pier because it was so spot on.
On another note, my ETSY store is off and running chalk full of my photography and vintage finds from all over Italy. Last week I was "adopted" by another shop. It's a way of helping each other out. Tina at Day Off Designs has kindly adopted me. Here is a link to her blog and shop, check it out. (She blogs too, it's the cool thing to do ya know.)
