Legend has it that 2,000 years a Villa for Emperor Augustus rested on the same site that today is the home of the Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria. Stepping off the busy downtown streets of Sorrento into the grounds that make up the hotel… one does feel transported back in time. The hotel, surrounded by […]
Read more »We were fortunate to live in Rome for three years and traveled often to the Amalfi. Of all the hotels we visited and stayed, Il San Pietro Di Positano was always my favorite. I love Positano – the beauty, the shops, and even the steps. But sometimes Positano can get a “little crowded.” Which […]
Read more »“Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes becomingly real after you have gone. Its houses climb a hill so steep it would be a cliff except there are stairs cut into it…” So wrote John Steinbeck in the May 1953, (from Harper’s Bazaar). […]
Read more »Ruby Princess – Naples After 10+ days of traveling the Mediterranean, we returned to the shores of Italy. The Ruby Princess arrived in Naples in the early morning. I was up early and took these photos of the sun rising behind Mt. Vesuvius. In the early morning, the busy port of Naples was stirring as […]
Read more »
Ron Phillips is an Independent Consultant of Brownell Travel 
Ron Phillips is an Independent Consultant of Brownell Travel