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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
In solitude, where we are least alone.
Lord Byron
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 29th 2018
Filed under Holidays, Ravello 2017
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.
Chinese Proverb
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 22nd 2018
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
Moliere
14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 4th 2018
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
Johann Christoph Fziedzich von Schillez
14 Comments CherryPie on Feb 25th 2018
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Villa Cimbrone – The Hortensia Avenue
Behind the pavillion lies the Hortensia Avenue:
The renaissance references ad the inspiration of the Medici villas is strong in this avenue which extends beneath a thick pergola supported by substantial round terracotta columns. A century-old banksiana tree with its clear, scented flowers shades the walk with is bordered by flourishing, colourful hortensia blooms. At the [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 20th 2018
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Villa Cimbrone – The Tea-room
The Tea-room was constructed as an open pavilion.
In the area before it we can see and old stone well, four beautiful columns from roman times, carved in the middle ages with multiple figures in relief, two elegant bronze deer, a square seat with little columns and a stone seashell with sea monsters. Recent studies date [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Feb 19th 2018