Loving Married Life in Cleveland

Ronnie and I both love going to different tastings- wine, food, whiskey!  It is a great thing to do for a date night- or date day.  You get to try some amazing products and if lucky you get some amazing food pairings. As part of the CIAO! Cleveland event, we attended the red wine tasting.  The wines chosen were great, it was a great deal at only $10 each. It was such a beautiful day for a wine tasting

 We woke up our first day in Sorrento and there were all of these banners hanging.  We figured out that they were celebrating the Ukrainian women.  All of the banners were blue and yellow and featured some type of wheat product.   We then went to Bar Fauno where we got breakfast every day.  Look at how much food they gave us for breakfast.  We learned after the first day and told them on subsequent days not to bring so much food out.  We did not want to waste the food.  But we got croissants, toast, eggs, tomato, more bread,  We wanted today to go and lay by the water.  So we eventually found out way down to the marina and went to one of the bathing platforms.   You are able to go rent a chair and an umbrella.  The weather was prefect!  It was not too hot, nice breeze.  We met 2 people from Australia who we talked to the entire day.  We literally just sat there and enjoyed our afternoon.  We could ...

  We started our day in Rome with our Toasty and cappucino with Amaretto.  We were waiting for our private driver to Sorrento.  This was the one big splurge.  I paid for us to have a private drive to Sorrento and back to Rome so we did not have to worry about transportation and it would just be easy.  Best decision and money every spent.   There was beautiful scenery as we drove.  We got to Sorrento late morning.  It was just wonderful.  We were able to check in the the hotel when we got there.   We then settled in and sat on our little balcony.  for a moment.  Sorrento just felt right, like home.   We were a little hungry at this point so we walked out of the hotel and onto Palazzo Tasso and found a restaurant in the square to get something to eat for lunch.  It was just so amazingly fresh.  The picture does not do the color of those yolks justice.  They are orange.  I had my first Sorre...