Thursday, March 14, 2024

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VENICE 




VENICE

The GRAND CANAL

FIND a HOTEL




The HOTEL DANIELI

VENICE, ITALY





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"One of Our FAVORITE HOTELS

VENICE


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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Back to Italy

 

First Stop NAPOLI


and

PIZZA !!!




la PIZZA

e PIZZAIOLO



la BELLA NAPOLI

Old Postcard of Naples




The AMALFI COAST



RAVELLO

View From The Top





POSITANO





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MINORI

The Amalfi Coast

aka

Costa di Amalfitana






VILLA MARIA
Lemon Grove Farm Agroturismo
in
Minori


This is Where I'll Be Staying for Three Glorious Days
(Maybe More)
On The AMALFI COAST

One of The Most Beautiful Spots on Earth "Bar None"

This is The View From AGROTURISMO VILLA MARIA
in
MINORI, ITALY

This is One of The Many Gorgeous Views From The Property

Looking Down Onto the Lovely Town of Minori and Out On To The Sea

The Tyrrhenian Sea




This is My Back Porch Terrace of My Room

at

VILLA MARIA





Lemon Trees at Villa Maria






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On to SICILY




Taormina




The GREEK THEATER

at TAORMINA

with

Mt ETNA



Piazza del Duomo

TAORMINA SICILY


on to PALERMO


A View of PALERMO



Mondello


Mondello is a Lovely Beach on The Outskirts of Palermo



Then on To My Friends at Villa TASCA

Villa Tasca



VINEYARDS at VILLA TASCA




Me & Conti Ciuseppe Tasca

with a Bottle of Giuseppe's Famed Rosso del Conti



On to My Grandparents Home Town



My Maternal Grandparents

PHILIPO & JOSEPHINA BELLINO

with My Mother LUCIA
&
UNCLE TONY

Lodi, New Jersey

about 1940


I Will Go to The City Hall in Lercara Friddi and get any pertinent records
of my Grandparenst Philipo & Josephine. I will also go to the church they were
baptized in as well as being married there ..

Note : Our family Name was Bellina, spelled with an "a" not an "o" but like
many immigrants passing through Ellis Island back at the turn of the Century (1900), the
correct spelling of my Grandparents was changed slightly from Bellina to Bellino. Since that was the spelling of their name on the very important document of them passing through Ellis Island, New York in 1904, it was the spelling they stuck with and used.



The Chairman of The Board

Francis Alber Sinatra

aka FRANK
aka

FRANK SINATRA

Ancestry of Lercara Friddi, (Sicilia) Italy


My Grandparents who came from Lercara Friddi, the same town as Frank Sinatra and
Lucky Luciano, immigrated to America and settled on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in Yorkville, and lived there for a few years before moving to the town of Lodi in New Jersey, which was at the time inhabited sole of Italian-American Immigrants, of which 90% of them were from Sicily ...

My Grandfather Philipo was a Shoemaker in Lercara Friddi as was Frank Sinatra's 
grandfather. It's most likely they knew each other being from a small town in the 1880's, 90s, and early 1900 Hundreds .. We may even be related which I will try to find out at the city hall in Lercara Friddi. "Wouldn't that be Cool?"


On to See My Friend FRANCISCO PLANETA

of

PLANETA WINES


PLANETA VINEYARDS

Sambuca, Sicily


 
CORLEONE




AL PACINO



aka

Michael Corleone




OFF to MARSALA 

to Visit My Friends Jose & Antonio Rallo 
at
Their Family Wine Estate DONNAFUGATA



View of MARSALA

SICILIA 

ITALY


DONNAFUGATA

MARSALA, ITALY



Brother & Sister

JOSE & ANTONIO RALLO


DONNA FUGATA VINEYARDS

MARSALA




Me & My FRIENDS WINES

CAMPACIO, VENICA SAUVIGNON

DONNAFUGATA "MILLE UNA NOTTE"

BARBI BRUNELLO

PLANETA CERASUALO Di VITTORIA







SUNDAY SAUCE

by Daniel Bellino Z







GRANDMA BELLINO'S ITALIAN COOKBOOK

RECIPES From MY SICILIAN NONNA

by DANIEL BELLINO-ZWICKE

COMING JULY 2015

Recipes From Josephina Bellino Her Children & Grandchildren

Monday, March 11, 2024

Positano Cheapest Affordable Hotel Amalfi Italy

 




HOTEL ROYAL

One of POSITANO'S Most AFFORDABLE HOTELS






HOTEL ROYAL POSITANO


"THEY GO FAST" !!!

At an AVERAGE of $270 a NIGHT 

One of The BEST PRICES in TOWN







POOL at The HOTEL ROYAL

POSITANO



HOTEL ROYAL , POSITANO  .... Info, Availability, & Reservations

Hotel Royal Positano is surrounded by Positanos rocky cliffs, which drop down into clear blue sea. Relax in lush gardens on extensive sun terraces. Free and serviced beaches are easily reachable by public transport from Royal Positano Hotel. Just take the bus which leaves 16 feet from the hotel entrance. On site relax in Hotel Royal Positano's own small but well-equipped Health and Beauty Center or go for a refreshing swim.



HOTEL ROYAL, Via PASTIA 344. POSITANO. ITALY




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Thursday, March 7, 2024

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Best PIZZA New York City

GREENWICH VILLAGE NEW YORK

BARSTOOL PIZZA - Portnoy GIVES a SCORE of 9. 4 !!!





JOHN'S PIZZA

Of BLEECKER STREEY

GREENWICH VILLAGE NY

BARSTOOL PIZZA "One Bite" !!! SCORES a 9.4 !!!

Or is It 9.3 ???








JOHN'S of BLEECKER STREET

BARSTOOL PIZZA REVIEW



"ONE BITE"

EVERYONE KNOWS The RULES

Dave Portnoy - "This is the Best Pizza I've had so far in New York City."

"9.2 ! No 9.3 !!! Now I understand the Line."

"This is Great Pizza. John's of Bleecker Street, Coal Oven Pizza"

"GREAT GREAT PIZZA !!! 9.4 " !!!


So, as Dave Portnoy was eating the Pizza (John's), and was reviewing it. He First threw out a Score of 9.2, but quickly, within 1 second changed it to 9.3  ... He Loved it, saying it was the Best Pizza in New York. He waxed poetic on how much he Loved the Pizza, and then wrapping up his closing statements on the Pizza at John's of Bleecker Street, he said "Great Great Pizza, 9.4"

So we think the Score is 9.4 .. Or is it 9.4 ???






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Bourdain and Ozersky at Keens Steaks