Latest Blog Posts for Ciao {Down} Bella

• A Hello & Goodbye
  on Apr 25, 2012 in Hello Goodbye
  Ciao in Italian is both a greeting and goodbye. It seems only fitting. With every closed door is a new opportunity. I thought my experiences abroad would be the pinnacle of my year. I thought coming home would mean returning to the daily grind and a...
• Winter Weekends {Brugges, Belgium & Germania}
  on Jan 6, 2012 in Gluwhein Belgium Bruges Waffles Ryanair Mannheim Frankfurt Germany UNESCO Heidelberg World Heritage
  Jetlag is officially conquered! I've spent the last few days visiting with friends and stopping to catch up in the veggie aisle of the grocery store! America feels surprisingly good but I forgot how fast paced life is here! I'm trying to hold onto my...
• New Year, New Adventure
  on Jan 2, 2012 in Adventure Travel About Me New Year
  Happy New Year! I'm still not sure what time zone I belong to but I do know I'm back on U.S. soil. I've spent the last week turning off my phone & computer to spend some quality time with my family showing them "my world" in Italy and explor...
• Sunny & Nice {French Riviera}
  on Dec 10, 2011 in France Hostel Nice French Riviera Monaco EasyJet Fall Break
  Forgive me {again} for taking a mini vacation from the blog but I truly have been on an endless vacation the past few weeks. Following fall break, I've traveled to a new country {yes, country} every weekend! As I tweeted the other day, I've lived mor...
• A Day in Paris
  on Nov 15, 2011 in France Hostel Paris Restaurant Fall Break
  While I love experiencing seasons {for the first time thanks to the SoCal 70}, all I want to do {and usually do} these days is curl up in bed with a steaming cappuccino! I've re-emerged though to share the second half of my incredible Fall Break...
• A Taste of Fall {Vienna & Zurich}
  on Nov 4, 2011 in Fondue Cupcakes Fall Austria Swiss Zurich Vienna Fall Break Lufthansa Dessert Switzerland
  This post is long overdue but traveling for ten days takes it out of you! Kait & I started off celebrating finishing midterms by indulging in a true taste of true fall in Vienna & Zurich. The California girl in me just wanted to run & fro...
• Cioccolato Crazed
  on Oct 16, 2011 in Perugia Italy Chocolate Day trip Festival Cioccolatto Eurochocolate
  "What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate."-Katherine HepburnFor those of you who know me well, you know that I'm a chocoholic {who am I kidding, everyone knows this}. I come from a long line of chocoholics wh...
• Where Art Thou?
  on Oct 12, 2011 in Cafe Italy Juliet Collosseum Castle Day trip Verona Duomo Romeo
  Verona never topped my day trip list so when I tagged along with a group of friends to the city known for being the setting of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet I had little expectations. What I found will forever ingrain my memory as one of the most...
• The {SECRET} Secret Bakeries of Florence
  on Oct 10, 2011 in Secret Santa Croce Florence Firenze Secret Bakeries of Florence Bombolone Bakery Nutella Cioccolatto Cornetta Canoli Secret Bakery
  If you've spent any length of time in Florence you've probably heard the whisperings about the secret bakeries. A few are not so secret but still remain out of the tourist's eye so the hunt for them late into the night is a popular excursion for...
• Cooking in the Countryside
  on Oct 3, 2011 in cooking lessons tiramisu Italy kitchen turkey Tuscany countryside Cooking pasta
  Another busy week leaves so much to say & little time to do it {or little motivation to acutally do so}. In fact, just before I posted this my computer charger caught on fire and my battery is on the verge of dying thanks to a power outage while...

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