Italy

Dalla Fonte Sicilian Tavola Box

If you love Italy, you’ll want to know about Dalla Fonte, a subscription box that will bring Italy to you

August 31, 2023

This is a sponsored post on behalf of Dalla Fonte, an Italy subscription box based in Washington State that brings a bit of Italy to your home and as always the thoughts and writing in this blog are always my own. How many times do we think about special places we’ve been to and want […]

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places to eat in Florence with kids on a family trip to Italy

Lovely things we will remember forever from our family trip to Italy

July 18, 2018

Have you noticed that when you get back from a trip everything that you did kind of blurs in your head so that when people ask you what was the best thing you did on your adventures, it’s impossible to remember?  I was looking on Google Maps the other day because someone asked about a […]

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Planning an itinerary for a 10 day trip to Italy with kids visiting Rome, Florence and Venice

Planning for 10 nights in Italy with kids

May 29, 2018

Isn’t family travel planning a little overwhelming?  If you only have 10 days in Italy or any place for that matter, how are you going to experience everything you want to see and how on earth are you going to do that with kids in tow?  This is totally how I felt when we ended […]

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Finding neat stops was a lot easier in Italy with our Verizon Travel Pass and Google Translate. These made it easier to plan a trip with two young kids.

Family Travel done bold, bravely and planned on the fly with Verizon Travel Pass

May 7, 2018

Remember in the old days when you plan a trip?  Or even in the not-so-old days when you get a guidebook and plot out on a map all the interesting places you read about so you can find your way there.  I used to have so much trouble reading maps properly I’d navigate us in […]

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