Guest Blogger: The Steps of Positano

Editors’ Note: This guest blogger thing is starting to become a habit, one that Laura and I are quite happy to encourage! Less work for us. :) As most of you know by now, we spent a week along the Amalfi Coast of Italy with my parents, Laura’s parents, her sister, and her uncle back in September. That’s eight people from three families… sounds like the setup for a cheesy 80’s sitcom. We had an amazing time exploring the coast, and my Mom was kind enough to write a bit about our week together. Thanks, Mom! We also have more photos from Italy to share, so be sure to check out our Positano, Pompeii, Amalfi Coast, and Capri photo albums. Ciao!

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Guest Blogger: The Navigators

Editors’ Note: We are very excited to publish our second guest blog entry! (And while we’re at it, we’d like to apologize to the esteemed authors of the *first* guest blog entry [“Israeli Sausage Toast”] for our general lameness in failing to follow it up with additional posts and pictures about our adventures in Israel. We really are working on those posts, S&I! Stay tuned!) But back to Italy… As most of you know by now, we recently spent a week in Tuscany with Laura’s mom (Mary), dad (John), sister (Teresa) and uncle (Buzz). Thanks to a lot of hard work and planning by Mary, we were able to spend the week in an old (as in, the 13th century!) villa outside of the sleepy town of Stigliano near Siena. It was a wonderful week full of amazing food and wine and beautiful countryside, but as you’ll see in Mary’s post below, it wasn’t entirely stress-free.

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Guest Bloggers: Israeli Sausage Toast

There will be (guest) blog. (Man that line never gets old.) Ilan and Sarah reporting for duty. We must say that we’re honored to be here, albeit a bit intimidated. As people whose names combine to the altogether unappealing “Slan” or “Iarah,” we really can’t compete with the smooth machinery that is “Lustin.” Alas, we will do our best.

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