Feast Travel

15/11/2024

Are you listening to the Tante Belle Cose Podcast?

90 Years of Tradition at Antica Trattoria Di Pietro

05/11/2024

The very best part of this job are the days when our favorite guides take us out to show us what’s possible beyond the most famous sites. And then we eat! And for those of you who have toured Rome with Margherita, she says our clients are always the best. 🏆🇮🇹🙏

27/10/2024

Yesterday at I walked into the dining room to see this group of girls drawing from postcards featuring Jenny Kroik’s paintings. I suddenly felt tears rolling down my face! I still cant quite verbalize why, but seeing these beautiful kids inspired by the beautiful art of beautiful friend…well, it moved me. That is the power of art.

Jenny will be returning to Cilento for a third year to host a week of art making. In 2025 we’re calling it “Jenny Kroik’s Art Colony” and this session is timed with the longest days of the year and the most amazing light and sunsets. We’ll swim in turquoise waters, bake bread, explore ancient temples, and have plenty of time in beautiful environs to be inspired and make art.

Want to join us? Send me a DM and I’ll send you the itinerary.

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09/10/2024

This is among the most fascinating things I’ve ever worked on. In 1980 a mummy was discovered in Naples, and not only is it likely the body of the most famous woman of the Italian Renaissance, the mummy reveals she was intersex. Listen to the whole story here:

https://www.danielleoteri.com/p/vittoria-colonna-had-it-all

How a mysterious mummy in Naples revealed a shocking Renaissance secret

20/05/2024

A few weeks ago, you may remember from my Instagram stories videos from La Lamparata - an experience of fishing for anchovies at night. I wrote about it for my newsletter on Substack called Tante Belle Cose. Click the link in the bio to read it. Also, how gorgeous are these photos by ? ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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20/05/2024

I've been visiting and writing about some pretty spectacular places in Cilento, just south of the Amalfi Coast, but with a fraction of the tourism. You can read about them here and if you want to visit, let me know. :)

Part 1 concerns Palinuro, the most beautiful white sand beaches and turquoise sea. This was the site of the very first Club Med and was THE place to be from the 1950s to the 80s: https://www.danielleoteri.com/p/part-1-paradise-lost-in-palinuro?r=1mn2w

Part 2 is about La Lamparata, a night of fishing for anchovies followed by a midnight feast on a beach that can only be reached by boat. https://www.danielleoteri.com/p/part-2-la-lamparata-a-night-to-remember?r=1mn2w

Thanks to Jessica Scranton for the beautiful photographs.

08/05/2024

I spend much time thinking about over-tourism and find it fascinating how places touted as the best or most beautiful in Italy are reliably the ones filled with commissionable hotels and activities and services available in English. Meanwhile, the most beautiful place in Italy is inexpensive, uncrowded, has delicious food, and is the very definition of authentic. And nobody is there. I wrote about Palinuro for my newsletter on Substack.

Exploring Timeless Wonders Along the Southern Coast of Cilento

26/04/2024

Exploring the southern edge of Cilento. Photos by ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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20/03/2024

The most common question we hear is what to pack for a 10 day trip to Italy. Here's our guide with links to specific clothing items for your Italy capsule wardrobe.

Once you’ve chosen your destinations in Italy and booked your hotels and tours, you will no doubt begin to stress about what to pack. A quick internet search will send you down a rabbit hole with advice on the necessary Italian travel essentials, from the best shoes to buy or pickpocket-safe bags ...

02/03/2024

Are you planning an Italy trip for 2024 or 2025? Rome hotels are already booked solid for June and July, and the Amalfi Coast, even in October, is heavily booked!

You must plan far ahead if the classic destinations are on your list. If you're interested in getting off the beaten path, there's much more room for adventure and spontaneity, but you'll need advice for selecting the right places.

To help, I'm hosting a series of free Zoom classes in March called Essential Insights. This is an opportunity to skip the confusing parts of trip planning and avoid common mistakes so that you can plan the most amazing Italy trip possible.
Are you planning an Italy trip for 2024 or 2025? Rome hotels are already booked solid for June and July, and the Amalfi Coast, even in October, is heavily booked!

You must plan far ahead if the classic destinations are on your list. If you're interested in getting off the beaten path, there's much more room for adventure and spontaneity, but you'll need advice for selecting the right places.

To help, I'm hosting a series of free Zoom classes in March called Essential Insights. This is an opportunity to skip the confusing parts of trip planning and avoid common mistakes so that you can plan the most amazing Italy trip possible.

Join us March 4, 5, and 6th on Zoom.

To register: https://www.feasttravel.com/italy-destinations

21/02/2024

Last October Jenny Kroik hosted a magical artists’ retreat at

Several guests were working professional artists while others keep art as their passion or hobby. A few were absolutely beginners.

With fabulous food and wine to accompany a new adventure every day, plus lots of time to draw and paint, each guest told us what a special experience it was for them.

So we’re doing it again this May with some adjustments to the itinerary to surprise and delight our returning guests.

If you’re thinking about joining us and would like to learn more, join us on Leap Day, February 29 at 8 PM EST on Zoom. Hosted by Jenny and Danielle .oteri from Feast Travel, you’ll have a chance to ask questions and see if this is the right experience for you. Rumor has it there may be a discount code, offered to those attending the Zoom.

See the link to register in our bio.
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20/02/2024

Have you ever been to Herculaneum? These scrolls, carbonized by the same eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii nearly two millennia ago may soon be read!

How AI may cause a renaissance of the written word

01/02/2024

Deadline to register for our Spring Food & Wine Workshop is February 5th! 🌿🇮🇹 ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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17/01/2024

Embark on a culinary journey in Southern Italy! 🍇🍷 Register now for our Spring Food and Wine Workshop. Limited spots are available; secure yours by February 5th! 🌞🇮🇹

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Food and wine are the best ways to fully immerse yourself in Italian culture without knowing the language. They connect us to both nature and traditions. Cooks, farmers, foragers, and winemakers are the people who can give you the most meaningful experience of Italy which is what inspired me to crea...

17/11/2023

For Tante Belle Cose I wrote about the unlikely places, like the Brutalist strip mall, where you’ll find the most authentic Italian cooking. Link in Stories.

11/11/2023

Calling all fans of My Brilliant Friend! Here’s something very cool for you to discover in Naples.

There’s a beautiful old galleria across the street from the archeological museum which has been long neglected called the Galleria Principe. Built during the 1870s of glass and steel, it was an elegant covered shopping area similar to the Galeria Umberto, but over the decades it fell into disrepair and disuse. Several attempts to revitalize it went nowhere until now, and the filming of season 2 played big part in it!

Remember the scene where the friends leave the neighborhood for a walk through a wealthy neighborhood in Naples and a terrible fight breaks out? Well in the book, that happens in the Piazza dei Martiri, but the scene was instead shot in the Galleria Principe. If you visit there today you’ll find several shops, and an absolutely gorgeous literary cafe. (Seriously, if you want to know what my rich inner world looks like, it’s this place. And at night there’s a very hip new restaurant called Sustanza. But notice the vintage signage throughout the galleria, especially the Banco di Napoli — they’re all artifacts of the filming of that scene!

22/10/2023

If you want to have a beautiful life, surround yourself with art and artists. This past week has been one of noticing, appreciating, and having conversations like “oh did you see the light this morning after the clouds broke?” Thank you to all the lovely guests who participated in the first week of “Jenny Kroik’s Grand Tour. “

04/10/2023

Two volcanoes, four castles, 600 churches, and countless murals and shrines to their working class hero. Naples has always been and will always be my kind of town.