Capri Positano Sorrento The Amalfi Coast

Da MARINO

One of My FAVORITE Restaurants in NAPLES

Had a Great Lunch Here One Day : Seafood Salad, Spaghett Vongole,

and Salame PIZZA

with a Carafe of FALANGHINA Wine .. Yumm !!!

 

  Piazza Umberto Capri, my photo on the Summit of Mt Solaro Capri looking down to The FARAGLIONI ROCKS , and my The HOTEL CARMENCITA where I stayed on that trip. CAPRI Italy ... My Vacation, Summer 2015 : The Quissisana Hotel, Lemeonade at The Lemeonade Stand, and a Plate of SPAGHETTI VONGOLE ..

  The Most Delicious INSALATA FRUTTA di MARE (Seafood Sald) Ever at Da MARINO RISTORANTE PIZZERIA, Napoli, around the block from The Excelsior Hotel Naples, ITALY ... Me and the guys at HOTEL CARMENCITA, Anacapri CAPRI , The "LIMONCELLO GIRLS"Italy and The PALAZZO ROSSO ...  

A CAPRI TAXI at the bus-stop near the Pizza Umberrto CAPRI, Map of CAPRI, Raffael My BOATMAN into The GROTTO AZZURO (Blue Grotto), Inside The GROTTO, me in the Boat getting ready to into the BLUE GROTTO , and boats at the GROTTO AZZURO, CAPRI ...  


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MANGIA ITALIANO

MEMORIES of CAPRI

THE AMALFI COAST

and ITALIAN FOOD

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Puglia is My Next Vacation

 

A Beach in BARI

 

"I'm Going Swimming Here This SUMMER"

Moments in PUGLIA

 

WATCH THIS VIDEO !!!Absolutely GORGEOUS

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MANGIA ITALIANO

 

 

"I CAN'T WAIT to MAKE MEMORIES of PUGLIA" !

 

My SUMMER Vacation 2019

 

PUGLIA

 

SALERNO and The MALFI COAST

 

ITALY

 

Author Daniel Bellino Zwicke

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AGRIGENTO Sicily

AGRIGENTO

SICILY

Summer 2017

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Me in ITALY

In The Cellars

of CASTELlo VERRAZZANO

Greve , ITALY

April 2000

Checking Out a FISHERMAN

CETARA

The AMALFI COAST

ITALY

At CAFFE GLAMOUR

LERCARA FRIDDI

SICILIA

Summer 2017

Me at The TEATRO GRECO

SIRACUSA

SICILY

2017

BEST SICILIAN RECIPES EVER !!!

GRANDMA BELLINO'S COOKBOOK

AT The PIAZZA di POPOLO

ROME

May 2018

Me and Cousin JOE MACARI

Having a PROSECCO

at a BACARO

VENICE , ITALY

2003

Me Cousin Tony Bellino

Allan S. and Cousins Marta & Mimo

SORRENTO

May 2018

VERONA

2003

Vinitaly

MANGIA ITALIANO

MEMORIES of ITALY

ITALIAN FOOD

and ???

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#DanielBELLINOzwicke

#Rome

Me in VENICE Italy

VENICE

READ of My VENICE

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Venice

ME and COUSIN JOE

Drinking PROSECCO

A Bacaro in VENICE

2003

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Hotel TOSCA CAPRI

Entrance to La TOSCA

CAPRI

La TOSCA

I found Villa Tosca  in my Frommer's Italy Guide Book way back in 1988 .. It was in the budget section of the more affordable establsihments on the slightly expensive Isle of Capri. Following the instructions in the book, I got off the slow ferry boast from Napoli to Capri at Marina Grande and made my way to the Funicular that took my up to Capritown. I asked for directions and walked down towards the Quississana Hotel as Villa Tosca was located behind it.

As you are walking from the Piazza Umberto to the Quississana, the hotel appears and you will see a narrow alleyway on the right side of the hotel as you look directly at it. You walk down the aleyway and you will come to the Caeser Augustus walkway. If you look straight ahead you will see the Carthusian Monastery. Make a right and another quick right, and you will find Albergo La Tosca back here.

When I first stayed there in 1988, the place was called Villa Tosca and was a modest pensione/ hotel. The son spruced the place up, made it into a cool little boutiquish hotel that is ow called La Tosca. The rates are still pretty reasonable starting at 120 Euro a night.

It's a cute little place, with the main draw being its great location with one of the best views you'll find on the island. 

When I was going on my trip in 2015, I wanted to stay at Tosca again, but when I was searching for it on Booking.com and other hotel sights, the place wasn't coming up. I eneded up staying at Hotel Carmencita up in Anacapri. When I was walking around one day, I went to Tosca and discovered the slight name change. The same family still owns it, and I remember the son who was now some 27 years older. 

I had a wonderful time staying at Villa Tosca in 1988, walking down to The Farglioni to go swimming. Then I took a boat from Faraglioni to Marina Picolo, beffore taking the little bus up to Capri Town. 

The Summit of Mt Solaro

Looking down to The Faraglioni Rocks

CAPRI

MARINA GRANDE

CAPRI

Approaching Marina Picolo

My walk from Due Golfo

Down to Marina Picolo

May 2015

A lovely little Walk

My Other Hotel in CAPRI

Hotel Carmensita

ANACAPRI

HOTEL CARMENCITA

View of The Pool

From My Balcony at CARMENCITA

ANACAPRI

CAPRI , ITALY

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Bar DeMartino - Positano

 

 

The TERRACE of BAR DeMARTINO

Where I Once Sat

Drinking CAMPARI OJ or ESPRESSO

 

Once Upon A Time in Positano on the Amalfi Coast not so long ago there was the Bar Di Martino on the curve of Punta Reginella with one of the most scenic panoramas this village of breathtaking panoramas has to offer. Breakfast-lunch-cocktails and late night gathernigs brought together visitors from around the world and local residents in a perennially festive mood to see and be seen. To discuss and argue and create new friendships and appointments for the day and the weeks ahead.

 

 

The Via Pasitea

Bar De MARTINO

 We knew this a little while ago with a message we did not even believe. E 'died Ciro De Martino, the owner of the homonymous bar in Via Pasitea (where is now the Cafè Positano) that was considered the "good retreat" of artists, writers, intellectuals. The "world" of culture and the real "aficionados" of the pearl of the Amalfi coast "recognized" in this place where time flowed with the slow rhythms typical of that atmosphere of timeless Mediterranean places. Here you happened to meet the great showman, like the poet Gregory Corso (pictured) or artists like Ibrahim Kodra and beyond. You could stretch out from the nightlife of the big beach, then very busy for the by night, climb to "La Scalinatella" and drinking a gin and tonic the time passed chatting until dawn, between adventures and winking, reflections or discussions, a guitar playing and two laughs, when Ciro churned out the hot croissants and, without ever complaining about a presence beyond the maximum term of common tolerance, you could taste them at sunrise. . I remember when he told me about the Beatles, who still owed him something for drinking a latch, or the many artists and painters Hundertwasser, Corsa, Lieto, Rudi and Vali ...... Peter Thomson .. He, like the many operators of the past, with a big heart and hands incalled by the hard and honest work of a life, he always welcomed everyone with kindness and humanity. From his bar passed and met the world .. so many stories, unfortunately, we can not hear them anymore ... Now Ciro, who ended his days in his little house in Praiano down the stairs of Gavitella, in the "heart" of the coast of Amalfi, it's not anymore.

     

TERRACE of BAR DiMARTINO

Sadly is No More

It's Now BAR POSITANO

A Much Differrent Place

Me at BAR De MARTINO

#POSITANO


Summer 1986


My 2nd TRIP to The AMALFI COAST

   

   

FISH and BOYS of POSITANO

   

MANGIA ITALIANO

MEMORIES of ITALIANO

and PLACES TOO




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At PIAZZA d POPLO

ROME

May 2018

The Twin Churches SANTA MARIA

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