Are You Ready For Your Closeup?
Calling all interested in sharing their Bliss!
I am looking for a few good bloggers to guest blog on The Blissful Adventure while I am traveling in Italy in May.
Travel Bloggers, Food Bloggers, Photographers, and Humorists to the front of the line 
For 25 consecutive days I will post a morning blog from one of my talented colleagues in on of the following topics:
- Italy Travel – Because that is where I will be
- Italian Food – Because this is what I will be eating (recipes are required)
- Italy Photos – Because I will be taking them too
- Italy Humor – If you have a funny story about being in Italy from Italy or married to an Italian.
- Haiku – I will definitely need the Haiku Sunday to continue so if you can post at least 5 original images (preferably of Italy) and do 5 Haiku the job is yours
I will post in the afternoons or evenings in days when I can find a break in the action; otherwise, I will be relying on my team (my fellow bloggers) to keep my blog fresh and alive.
If you have an interest in being part of this fun and community-building exercise email your idea(s) to me at mhousewright@yahoo.com
All entries will be sent to me and approved in advance. Your posts will introduce you as the guest blogger and link readers directly to your blog. I encourage you all to post a link to your guest appearance on the day the blog will run which I will inform you of in advance. If you are selected to guest blog on TBA all entries must be in by Sunday April 29, 2012 to be considered.
I am confident this will be great fun!
Cheers,
Michael – The Blissful Adventurer
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Thanks for posting
Hi Michael, I’d be honored, but it’s been too long – over seven years.
Need to go back!
it could be 50 years so long as you still have memories to share. that is the beauty of blogging
We were attacked like hell by mosquitos in Venice…I got pooped on by the pigeons in the square…and we did the real gondola ride thing…very cool..although the gondoleer (is that a word?) sang AC/DC “Back in Black” to us…
That is so awesome about AC/DC! Venice is our first stop this time around. Juliet has never been
Mosquitoes and Poop I try to avoid 
She will LOVE it! We kept the windows open at night on the canal. BIG mistake! Ha. But worth every moment of it. I’ll bet you’ll take her to those out of the way/family restaurants, right? We had the best food one day – eating sardine/garlic pasta – it sounds odd, but it’s wonderful. PLUS, you drink all day…so nothing really bothers you…:)
you know the drill already
Hi Michael,
Letizia
I can’t wait to follow your adventures in Italy…where exactly will you be going??
Have a nice trip
Thank You Letizia!
Here is a link to our itinerary I posted last week http://blissfuladventurer.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/italy-itinerary-may-2011/
This is an outline of where we will be in general with the specifics still under construction. Thanks so much for saying hello
Thanks
Great tour you’re about to do… One tip in Rome: visit the district Coppede’! It’s located between Corso Nomentana and Corso Trieste. Absolutely worth visiting and not so known by tourists.. 
I love the spots where you can still find the real Italy (that’s what my blog is more or less about)…
Well, have fun and will be following your blog
Please tell me more about those areas. I lived in Rome for a bit and have not knowingly visited either. My writing and my work are often about my years of living and working in Italy, for Italy, or in the pursuit of Italy. We typically spend a few months a year there so any suggestions are always appreciated. My direct email is mhousewright@yahoo.com if there is any further detail you would enjoy sharing. Do you know the blog Parlafood.com (Katie is a dear friend and I love her take on life in the eternal city)
First of all, what a great job you must have
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If anything other pops up in my mind I will send you an email…for sure!! Even though I’m not sure if the ‘tips’ I give you are useful for your work…you can enjoy these places just for yourself
Thanks for sharing the link to your friends blog. I didn’t know it yet (I’m only blogging for 2 months) but I’ll definitely check it out!
I was one of the founders and owners of this travel company in Puglia: http://www.southernvisionstravel.com We developed the authentic travel experiences in Southern Italy and while I am no longer an owner (sold my part in the company to write full time in 2011) it is still very near and dear to me. Once we go to Friuli and Le Marche this year there will remain only 1 Italian state I have not at least visited. So, my project on this trip is to photograph some of the more obscure and high quality wine areas and create media pieces (as well as some book art) for the work.
I think you and I may have quite a lot in common 
Wow, how wonderful! The south of Italy is so beautiful too..my fiance is from Calabria where we will be going this summer for 2 weeks. My father is from Sardegna (but lives in the Netherlands) and I’m living in Piemonte. I lived the first year in Rome and throughout my life I visited many places in Italy. Still, I have never been to Sicilia, Puglia and Friuli….
I will be enjoying your discoveries as we love a good wine!
Italy is so diverse and has so much to offer!! But you know all about that
Well, my post today happens to be a little fiction based in Piemonte
Where do you reside there?
Borgomanero (Novara area)…
cool, we may be in Piemonte at the 11th hour..we will see
Cool
Hi Michael, Bizarre as it may seem, May 30th is ITICA National Fish and Chips Day. ITICA is the Irish Traditional Italian Chippers Association. We handle their advertising in the agency. Have a look at the site we developed for them at http://www.itica.ie.
National Fish and Chips Day has been an outrageous success for the Italian chippers. I will probably be focussing on this for a post of some sort straight after the day. If you would like something Irish Italian for during the month, shout. I know them quite well and I have a great handle on their history and unique heritage here in Ireland.
Best,
Conor
Conor, I love this and YES I want you involved
email me directly at mhousewright@yahoo.com to let me know what days you would like to post..I love Fish n Chips perhaps as much as any food on earth 
I don’t think I am much of an expert on Italy, sad to say….
yeah, but you can just be funny! I would love for you to do this
Any chance you are looking for an assistant in Italy during your trip
Italy in May sounds wonderful.
TBM, come on over
Love it
I have some fun Italy photos, and food is always a winner… that is, if I don’t steal away in one of yours or Juliet’s suitcases…
Fratello,
I will most definitely be sending you an email or two with possible ‘guest-blogging’ potential. Needless to say, I will focus on le ricette.
My only off-the-top-of-my-head funny story of my time in Italia involved me asking Il Cuoco di La Ciau del Tornavento if he ever served horse at his restaurant, because the braised beef he had done sure tasted like dead horse to me. Was it funny? It was for me, since he was a pompous jerk. For him…not so funny. It was then and there I first learned what the expression ‘va fan culo’ meant.
lol..I LOVE me some horse
The do it so brilliantly up in the Veneto and also in Puglia 
I’m sure it’s old hat and uninteresting to y’all with all of your experience, but I loved watching Bizarre Foods. So many things and places I’ll never get the chance to experience in person…
Also why I love reading your sites…I love being able to see it through your eyes!
Hey brotha send me a note on Friday to my email about what you want to post
I’m there. Look for it Friday.
awesome
I sent you an email – hope it didn’t get spammed. There’s no couch involved, right?
OMG…are you referring to what I think you are? I did not receive the email
I’m afraid so…
Funny, haha? At any rate I resent the email. If you don’t get it I’m just going to post it here.
Oh and I’m a terrible blogging buddy forever and nominated you for no less than three blogging awards tonight. You will have to check out my post to see them.
Maybe a Mexican humpday…..
go for it
Happy travels Michael! I’ll put on some Dino and live vicariously through your blissful adventures. I look forward to reading your guest bloggers.
Your glass needs more brew… heh
yes, I run low on Champagne quickly
Hrrmm…if someone who is not photographically challenged would like me to write Haiku for their pictures, I’d be thrilled!
Two silly samples for you. First, an Italian limerick:
A handsome young man from piedmont
liked to be, with the girls, nonchalant
until one day they jumped him
and battered and bumped him
crying “tell us, which one do you want?”
And a sort of haiku.
a flag of pasta, drying
in the breeze it waves
white-on-white, Italian pride
these poems are great! I am happy to loan you photos if you want to do a day of great poetry!
I’d be honored. Seriously. You take some awesome pics, and I’d get a kick out of making stuff up to go with. All Haiku, or want some other mini forms mixed in?
Want you to have fun and not worry on your trip, don’t I?
KC, you can do anything you want
Aww, yay! *claps* A chance to learn more than surface Italian and movie Italian and comedian Italian and nostalgia Italian…well, you get the picture. Oh, wait, that’s me! I get the pictures! *giggles*
that is indeed funny!
i’m sensing a theme. i’m picking up a vibe. i see another country, possibly another continent. hmmm. i see food and wine. i see hills and old world charm.
argentina?
if you want to do an Argentina post I am happy to oblige as I trust you
love a good malbec, but i was just trying to be funny.
OK, sorry to be dense. I though you were pitching an Argentina theme
I’ll try to cover all of the above in one (except for the haiku)!
Awesome Sheila!
Sheila, I will be responding to everyone directly from my email on Friday. Stay tuned