To those that wonderfully wrote for the blog, and allowed us to use your inspiring images for our posts and on social media, grazie mille for helping to imaginatively foster a love and educate of all things Abruzzo! Researchers like Janet Brady for the WhatsOnAbruzzo calendar – a huge thank you for all your work on this project.
To those businesses who came to our Christmas lunch and helped us raise a collection for the charity, On the Road, thank you, especially for listening to our ideas and plans for 2023 and being so enthusiastic about our coming soon cultural association! With grateful thanks to Jacqui Matthews Price for helping us organise it!
Tanti auguri di buon anno!
2022 Highlights from LifeinAbruzzoItaly on Instagram
These were the posts and reels that had an incredible reach around the world in addition to a far few likes!
2022 Highlights from the Life In Abruzzo Private Facebook Group
For us, street seafood in San Vito Chietino. Mirko’s and Le Frit, same owners and same excellent, interesting, great seafood 👍
Loads of things,a new festa discovered in Campo di Giove,and seeing my Pizza hero Bonci!
Buying personalised Sulmona confetti for my Mum’s 90th Birthday and rediscovering the delights of Sulmona on market day.
The festa of Borgo più Belli at Caramanico Terme with stalls,flag waving and the discovery of Francesco Mammola a beautiful Musician from Abruzzo.
So many things, but the beautiful autumn colours in the National Parks stand out.
Discovering spaghetti al aglio rosso di Sulmona at the Trattoria Don Ciccio in Sulmona. It was divine.
Very simple thing, but seeing the Adriatic from our new home for the first time.
For us, buying our home in Citta Sant Angelo!
Pennadomo! Amazing… And the elderly gentleman who sits in the bench there and recites you his poems in dialect!
Visiting family. Seeing the view again from the front yard of my ancestral home in Forca di Valle.
The personalized cookies my neighbor made for my husband and I for Christmas. It’s our first one here and this was a delight!
Calanchi near Il Tarallo, south of Loreto Aprutino. We’ve driven near here many times but it’s the first time I’ve seen this view.
Author: Sam Dunham
Sam is a very lucky midlife 'mamma' to A who is 11 and juggles her work as a self-employed freelance travel and food web content manager and copywriter and EFL teacher - she is the founder of English in the Woods. She is the co-founder of the social enterprises: The Abruzzo Blogger Community and Let's Blog Abruzzo. She is currently writing the book 'Abruzzo: Folk and Food.