At the end of our epic European Summer Road Trip, we traveled by ferry from Dubrovnik, Croatia to Bari, Italy and then from Rome Italy, to Barcelona, Spain. To get from Bari, on east coast “heel” of Italy’s boot, to Civitavecchia, just north of Rome on Italy’s west coast was Read more…
C and I had both been to Venice as 20-somethings traveling the continent. Our memories of it were “smelly”, “crowded”, “overrated”. When an unexpected event caused us to change some plans en route from France to Slovenia, we found ourselves booking a last-minute 5-day stay just outside of Venice. And, Read more…
It is really easy to get from Rome to Pompeii, the ancient Roman city that was buried in ash by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in AD 79. We woke up one morning during our stay in Rome and took a quick 1 hour train ride to Naples, where Read more…
Our second full day in Rome started with the event everyone was looking forward to – a pizza making class! We walked our way from our centrally-located apartment, passing by the Pantheon and the famous Piazza Navone, plus a few other random bits of Roman history as we strolled through Read more…
We took advantage of a long weekend to hop on over to Rome for a few days <unfortunately, we weren’t the only ones with that plan, since our long weekend was for the European’s version of labor day – celebrated all over Europe!>. We picked up the boys after school Read more…