Comments on: About http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com Ramblings of a genealogy fanatic as she undertakes the road back in family. Hints, tricks, successes, and failures of family research. Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:44:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Raeleen Mautner http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/about/#comment-2221 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:31:46 +0000 #comment-2221 What a beautiful story! I too and from CT and love the Don Camillo books (I read them in Italian when I was staying in Parma a few years back.). I wondered if you might be able to tell me how to get to Campodimele if I don’t drive in Italy? I know you have to get off of the train in Formia, but then how to get up the hill??

Also, do you know of a place to stay in Campodimele that is right in the village square itself?

Thanks very much!

]]> By: Annette Ciccone http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/about/#comment-26 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:07:34 +0000 #comment-26 Hello Bonnie and Val…
Sorry it took a while to get back to you but the Club has got me busier than I planned. I read your comments about last week and I was just humbled, you can be sure. I forwarded your blog to April and Mike and they responded with a dozen compliments on your blog and particularly about your “writing style”. April thought it an absolute pleasure to read and in-turn complimented her mother and father as you did.
I can’t tell you how much Frank and I enjoy Amici del’Itri…I think we have the beginning of a new “club”. To be able to spend an evening every so often with friends from Itri and speak of Itri, well, what can I say…and I know you feel the same…It’s just the next best thing to being there. And speaking of that !!!!! We want to wish you both a safe trip and a million moments of joy while you’re there. We will be at Il Grittone on Thursday by noon…hope to have espresso with you and Val…(I can’t sit still) Ciao for now – Annette

]]> By: valentinoswife http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/about/#comment-15 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:03:53 +0000 #comment-15 I think all of those of us who know Itri are blessed! She conveys the best of what average folks believe to be Italy….famiglia, good weather, beautiful surroundings, great food, and an over abundance of love, laughter, tears … all that is life!

]]> By: Annette Ciccone http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/about/#comment-14 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:36:04 +0000 #comment-14 Hi Bonnie –

How beautiful your narrative was about last weekend and conversations about Itri.
You have a special knack for conveying the feelings of
Itri and its people.

We are blessed.

Annette

]]> By: Renee Schneider http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/about/#comment-13 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:45:37 +0000 #comment-13 Thank you for including us with your family and friends.
We would love to get together with you and Lil and Harry some afternoon.
Let’s do is in 2009. We just talked about it in 2008.

]]> By: Annette Ciccone http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/about/#comment-12 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:06:10 +0000 #comment-12 Ok…e-mail me with your phone number so I can give you directions, date and time…how’s that?

]]> By: valentinoswife http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/about/#comment-11 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:52:34 +0000 #comment-11 Sounds perfect!

]]> By: Annette Ciccone http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/about/#comment-10 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:36:55 +0000 #comment-10 How ’bout getting together some evening for espresso and sfogliatelle ?

]]> By: valentinoswife http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/about/#comment-9 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:40:00 +0000 #comment-9 That was what Val and I decided this morning! Ha! We all remembered at same time! Anyway – Val’s grandfather Michele DiCrocco was married to Maria Teresa Ciccone (born 1841) – all from Itri so that is that connection. We will just have to figure out eactly how.
As for your store – boy! We still mss you so! No one has ever filled that void and it is a shame! Your deli was the best ever in Brevard! Especially when I want special foods that I cannot find elsewhere. My sister-in-law is fantastic – she packs special treats like Salamoia in my packages from Italy! We love that in almost everything we cook – supposedly it is available in the US but we have not been able to find it anywhere so it must be a well-hidden secret except to some specialty stores in Italian districts. If you do not know name, it is a blend of salt (usually more coarse grind), thyme, rosemary, basil,etc. Families guard their personal recipes but this is a popular commercial one. It is used in soups, meats, vegetables. One of the favorites we like is to use heavily on cut up potatoes and roast them in the oven – awesome flavor.
We must get together – we will have to share photos of Itri and reminisce about that special town. It is probably one of the best kept secret places but becoming more and more well-known. It is amazing the number of hotels and bread-and-breakfast type places opening there. I can certainly understand though because I love to go there and just let the rest of the world go away!

]]> By: Annette Ciccone http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/about/#comment-8 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:03:38 +0000 #comment-8 Good Morning –

The puzzle has been solved !
I live in Palm Bay and I used to own
Tutti Italia
You live in W. Melbourne and you came
in the store with your husbands cousin.

I’d love to get together and talk all things
Itri.
Ciao

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