Most Italian islands give you one honest answer to this question, and it is usually June or September. Ischia is the exception, and the reason sits underground. The island is volcanic, and hot mineral water pushes up through the rock…
Supporting Guide
How to Get to Ischia
Ischia has no airport, no bridge and no tunnel, which is a large part of why it still feels like itself. You arrive by boat or you do not arrive at all. The crossing is short, cheap and frequent, and…
Where to Eat in Ischia
Eating well on Ischia depends almost entirely on how far you are willing to travel from the water. The island has a real cuisine of its own, older and more agricultural than people expect from the Bay of Naples, and…
Where to Stay in Ischia
Ischia is bigger than people expect. You can drive the ring road in an hour, but it is big enough that the town you sleep in decides what your week actually feels like. Six comuni, each with its own character,…
The Best Thermal Parks and Hot Springs in Ischia
My first morning on the island I put a hand into the sea at Sorgeto and took it straight back out. Not cold. Hot, properly hot, hot enough to make me laugh in front of strangers who had clearly watched…
The Best Beaches in Ischia
Ischia surprises people who arrive expecting a smaller Capri. It has actual beaches. Long ones, sandy ones, beaches you can lie down on all day rather than a slab of rock with a ladder bolted into it. The island is…
The Best Things to Do in Ischia
Ischia is big. That is the thing nobody tells you before the ferry docks. Six separate towns, a mountain in the middle, and a circular bus that takes the better part of an hour to cross the island. Try to…
A Villa del Balbianello Wedding Guide
If there is one image the whole world holds of a Lake Como wedding, it is this villa: the stone loggia stepping out over the water at the tip of its own wooded promontory, the Lavedo peninsula at Lenno, reachable…
The Lake Como Wedding Weekend Itinerary
Almost nobody comes all this way for a single afternoon, and you should not either. A Lake Como wedding is really a two or three day event, a whole weekend that lets your guests fall for the lake the way…
Lake Como Wedding Guest Outfits
Being a guest at a Lake Como wedding is its own small styling problem, and a more interesting one than people expect. You are dressing for a garden ceremony, quite possibly a boat, and a late lakeside dinner that turns…
How Much a Lake Como Wedding Costs
Nobody likes to open with money, and most pages about this one dance around it. The lake can be done at wildly different price points, and the number is driven far less by the venue than by the things nobody…
The Lake Como Honeymoon Guide
If there is one piece of advice I give every couple who marries here, it is this: do not leave the morning after. You will have spent a year planning a single day, and the lake deserves more of you…
