Rubber Slippers in Italy

by JHSEsq

Nes­tled in the province of Lecco, Italy there lives a Hawai­ian girl named Rowena and her dog. Oh. And there’s hus­band too. This mag­i­cal place on the Inter­net is called Rub­ber Slip­pers in Italy Italy. Today they are tak­ing a Walk In The Woods, one of many adven­tures large and small that has become part and par­cel of this couple’s life. They are frol­ick­ing in the hills of France with their adorable dog Mad­die. You might think this a typ­i­cal vacation-type blog at first glance. Dig a lit­tle deeper and you find post after post of beau­ti­ful orig­i­nal pho­tographs of their trav­els — com­men­tary by Mad­die — and a sense of adven­ture and love between a young hus­band and wife.

It’s charm­ing.

One of my favorite shots is the one you see here of Mad­die in Paris.

The cap­tion reads, “What I wouldn’t give to bury a bone under the Eif­fel Tower.“

Give your­self a vir­tual vaca­tion on this mid-summer day and lounge around in Rowena’s won­der­ful blog. There are no lines, no hotel fees, no air­line blun­ders and deli­cious places to visit seen through the eyes of young love.

Oh! Rowena’s blog has just been named a Blog Of Note by Blog­ger. Please send her a con­grat­u­la­tory salute and then put on your walk­ing shoes. A Walk In The Woods is the The Ris­ing Blogger’s Post Of the Day.

You don’t know French or Ital­ian? No worries.

Mad­die knows the language.

Review writ­ten by MIMI LENOX.

{ 4 comments }

1 Bud Weiser, WTIT July 20, 2008 at 2:47 pm

Mimi-
We just received an email asking if winners of Blog of Notes are eligible for the award. I hadn’t heard of them. Judd assured the potential reviewer that they can win. You picked a great post and wrote your standard great review. Well, done.

2 Rowena July 21, 2008 at 5:08 am

Hi Judd,
Well here I am, finally! Thanks for the mention although I truly think all this fuss is a bit much. However, I would love to submit a post by one my favorite bloggers, Kat from Our Adventures in Japan. Her post entitled The Climb is about a trek up to Mt. Fuji! Fantastic read, with illustrative photos of the trek.

3 barbara July 21, 2008 at 10:17 pm

Congrats to you Rowena !
I’ve been a regular at her blog since quite awhile and I do think that this is well deserved.
I’m not a food blogger like she is but she does so many mouth watering posts. And it is also a great window on her life in Italy.

Aloha to you my friend.

4 Anonymous August 12, 2008 at 5:28 pm

Suggestion… Add a counter through branica.com and have less links and more posts

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