When You Learn, Teach. When You Get, Give. – Maya Angelou

Since my first trip abroad to Vietnam when I was 20, I’ve been learning everything about traveling one flight at time. Tips, tricks, hacks, mistakes. They’re all a part of it. Most I learned from experiencing, some I learned from experts and those who came before me. And some from my fellow travelers. I learned how to travel for cheap. And then cheaper. I learned how to save time planning. Or not plan at all.

This is where I’m trying to do my part to give back and try to inspire a few of you to get out and plan that dream trip you’ve always wanted to do. You never stop learning. This is why I’m still in love with traveling after all these years. Everyday is a chance to encounter something new and experience something different. The world is just so big and it’s always changing. I’m doing my part to just ride this wave.

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Cooking with Barbara and Stefano in Riomaggiore

Cinque Terre’s Secret Cooking Class: Pesto and Gnocchi In A Hidden Vineyard Home

So there’s this cooking experience tucked on the side of a hilly olive grove high above Riomaggiore in Cinque Terre. Once a day, a local Italian couple opens up their hidden stone cottage home and kitchen to a few people, where together you take part in a quintessential Italian past time of preparing a meal from scratch using only local ingredients and fresh herbs from their garden.

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Riomaggiore local cooking class and lunch dining

Cesarine Review: The Closest Thing To Cooking With An Italian Nonna

For years, one particular food experience I’ve had on my bucket list for Italy is to “cook with someone’s nonna.” You know, a loud and lively kitchen, getting yelled at for adding too much salt or not enough salt, and of course getting a taste of the sauce before it hits the plate and being told that ‘that’s how you make the ragù.’

4 weeks ago