If you don't follow Nicki and Carlo on YouTube, well, you should! Nicki Positano (as she is known) has been posting amazing videos about their Positano life for nearly 20 years. Their home is tucked high above Positano on the cliffs of the Amalfi Coast. The road is 465 steps below their home (where their car is parked), while their scooter is parked a few hundred steps above in Montepertuso. Depending on which vehicle they need, they have quite a trek either up or down. They grow most of their own food, kayak in the sea below and take walks on the paths in the forest, passing dizzying cliffs and vistas. Their two dogs are constant companions: sweet Holly and her wilder pal, Indy. 

You can read about the Positano Diaries in Nicki Positano: True-Life Videos of Living the Dream on the Amalfi Coast.

Buying a new home in Tuscany was not an easy task for Nicki and Carlo. There were lots of houses toured and considered; negotiations taking months, the slow-moving legal Italian bureaucracy to navigate, and then trying to get the previous owners out of the house!

This move was a romantic dream for Nicki, but for Carlo the appeal was being able to drive a car right up to their new front door. Watch their Positano Diaries videos to find out how difficult to get things up to their house! Even donkeys with backpacks are used! I love watching Carlo's face fill with joy and amazement every time a delivery truck pulls right up to their new Tuscan home.

Is this their forever home? Are they going to sell their Positano home? Will they find the locals friendly? Will they renovate the house themselves?

You'll just have to watch for yourself. Here's a link to their Tuscan Diaries Playlist.

Say Ciao to Nicki and Carlo for me.

--Jerry Finzi

During the coronavirus lock-down, we have to be creative with our time. Since it is still cool, perhaps you would like to learn to make your own sausages.

Click the photo below to see this great demonstration by Nonna Franca.