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Will you be doing any back-to-school clothes shopping for your kids? Ours our growing so fast, so I do my best to choose plenty of neutral staples that can be passed down and shared.
The kids and I picked some things out together, and they were kind enough to model some of our favorites…
We celebrated the local tomato bounty with a first visit to the annual Capay tomato festival last weekend. In spite of the heat, people came out for tomato tasting, tractor rides, dancing and more—it was so much fun. We’ll definitely be back next year.
The crowd favorites for tomatoes? Apparently Sungolds win the cherry variety every year, but the runners up were red cherry and pink cherry. The winner in the heirloom variety was Cherokee Green. I’d voted for the runner up, Chocolate Stripe. I’ll share a few more photos below.
Do you have a favorite tomato variety?
Also, don’t forget to enter to win one of the custom bracelets! Today is the last day.
And now some Friday links…
On our last morning in Rome, we walked ourselves to a taxi stand at the end of Via dei Coronari, caught a ride to the Termini train station, and drove off from the Hertz rental office, direzione Napoli. We would skirt the city in the south, avoiding the temptation to pause for the best pizza in the country, and instead stop in the small village of Ercolano, still ominously sitting in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, and visit the archaeological site of Herculaneum.
It was 2-1/2 hours from Rome, and perfectly timed along the way to our next two nights’ destination, Matera, in the region of Basilicata.
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