One of the highlights of our recent trip to Florence was a day trip into the Tuscan countryside for a family-friendly pasta-making class at Al Gelso Bianco, a boutique family resort. Al Gelso Bianco has the most idyllic setting in … Continue reading
For our first post-Covid international trip as a family, we opted to spend the better part of a week in Florence, Italy. Italy is the place I daydreamed about the most when travel wasn’t possible during the pandemic and Florence … Continue reading
With several days in Rome, it’s an easy choice to devote the better part of one day to seeing the famous ancient Roman sites and another day to Vatican City. But what do you do with the rest of your … Continue reading
Until our recent trip to Rome, I’d never done an organized food tour, but I’ve always been curious about the concept. I mean, what could be better than spending a few hours strolling around a city while feasting on local … Continue reading
I’ve confessed before to not being much of a history buff, preferring to eat and photograph my way through cities instead, so I was surprised by how awestruck I was by the Colosseum and other ancient Roman sites we visited. … Continue reading
Like most first-time visitors to Rome, I had a visit to Vatican City near the top of my agenda. All my pre-trip research indicated that taking a tour was the way to go, and the earlier you can get there … Continue reading
Whether you hike, take the train or ride the ferry between them, one of the joys of hopping around the various Cinque Terre villages is scoping out the best places to eat in each town. Although we ate most of … Continue reading
After spending a day doing the Sentiero Azzurro between Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza and Corniglia, we devoted our second full day in Cinque Terre to hiking between Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore. Since we were staying in Manarola, we hiked from … Continue reading
There was really one and only one thing on our agenda in Cinque Terre: hiking! (Well, and eating, but eating is always on the agenda.) The region is famous for the footpaths connecting the five villages, especially the coastal Sentiero … Continue reading
Five charming villages clustered together on the Italian Riveria, the Cinque Terre has recently gone from relative obscurity to one of Italy’s biggest tourist highlights, and with good reason – the sight of brightly-colored buildings perched on cliffs above the … Continue reading
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