Di Fabio spends his summer months on Ponza “reading, writing and gathering energy for new ideas,” even occasionally painting, but when he takes a break from his ruminations, he heads to the dockside Bar Tripoli for an aperitivo and views of sailboats bobbing in rows on the water nearby. He may also duck into Hotel Chiaia di Luna where, gazing from the poolside terrace at the rift between two hills opening to a stretch of sea, “the sunset is incomparable.” Around the central Piazza Carlo Pisacane, dinner is best taken at Ristorante L’Aragosta, at Ristorante Eéa (Ponza is thought to be cited as Eéa in Homer’s Odyssey) or at Gennarino a Mare, where the dining terrace is built right into the waters along the shore. For dinner with “vistas of faraway horizons,” where the sea and sky can be appreciated in vast expanses, Di Fabio suggests the westward-facing Tramonto (sunset) restaurant, situated high above the hills in the exact center of the island.