Italy Photos

Let’s Go to Italy Together

21 years, Stephanie taking TWO (2) groups to Italy & beyond twice a year!

And going back on buying trips for her shop Decorate Ornate

Hop aboard with us on ‘fairy-tale’ adventures every

May/June and Sept/Oct.

We go off the tourist paths…..fairy-tale places!

Decorate Ornate Italy Tours

20 years taking fun Americans on ‘fairy-tale’ adventures!

Looking out my balcony window this morning, hearing the ding-donging of church bells….so fairy-tale here

We’re in the Mediterranean this morning in our own private boat!

My driver, Nino, our little bambino, driving us through southern Italy

Here we are once again…my favorite cemetery!

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Where is Stephanie? Shopping, of course!

Stephanie talking to old friends in Positano, Italy

Here we are….hop aboard with us!

We’re in “own” private boat!
Look at the castles down by the water, & grapes growing
above the white houses

Do you see the “Decorate Ornate” sign to the right on the
white fence?

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Here we are – Assisi, Italy
Final Resting place of St. Francis of Assisi

Let’s Go to Italy Together!

Wow, my sign is still here!
Come on, what are you waiting on?

Let’s Go to Italy Together!

Looking out my window in Umbria

Stephanie is in the parade

Come celebrate with them in Italy!

Area is roped off, high security,& only officials inside secured area
Hurry up with the Olive branches!

Stephanie leading the way to Venice, Italy

Venice, Italy – Stephanie, Kim & Jacque

In front of Saint Mark’s Basilica

Sicily June 2008 – Stefania

Stephanie – Erice Sicily
Meet Maria, a story of God’s grace The medieval village in Sicily, called Erice, is absolutely fairy-tale all the way! Tony & Stephani took everyone to this magical village, Erice, & met Tony’s friend, Maria After an American lady, Mary Taylor Simeti, a best seller author, moved to Sicily, and discovered Maria, she recorded Maria’s story and wrote Maria’s painful childhood, which is now published, Bitter Almonds. Read the Book Reviews An American writer living in Sicily sympathetically captures a Sicilian woman’s recollections of her childhood in an orphanage, complete with recipes. After a few pages describing Sicily’s impoverished west coast, tracing the history of its pastries, and explaining how she met her subject, Mary Taylor Simeti (Travels with a Medieval Queen, 2001) draws on taped interviews to let Maria Grammatico speak for herself, with an occasional interpolation. When Maria’s father died suddenly from a heart attack in 1952, her mother, pregnant with a sixth child, was unable to support the family on their small farm near Erice. So 11-year-old Maria and her younger sister were sent to a local orphanage, the San Carlo,in Erice, run by nuns who earned money making and selling regional delicacies.

I wish you could see how far we are up in the clouds
Erice is a fairy-tale village, it unbelievable!

Lana – Sicily

Sicily – Valley of the Temples
This is a burial cemetery in the Valley of the Temples

Castle in Sicily – no one is living there!
We are driving passed this castle; we’re on our way to a dear friend’s castle for an afternoon in the cherry & grape vineyard