There’s no sense easing into it, I’ll just dive right in. One of the wineries we visited plays Mozart 24/7 in their barrell room… to make the wine taste better. I’ll spare you the details, but suffice to say, The Read more
Today started off with a trip to The Galleria dell’ Academia, where Michelangelo’s David is kept. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the statue… WTF, seriously? I’d like to meet your rock. David is kept in a museum Read more
First things first, it may or may not be called Il Duomo. I think the real name is much longer but I’m tired, so here we are. Please don’t tell my architecture professors. We went into The Duomo, to the Read more
We left Venice this morning after having spent the perfect amount of time (2.5 days) there, I think. Just enough for ample meandering and planned sight seeing. Any more and we’d just have been retracing our steps. Look kids, Big Read more
It rained quite a bit this morning which makes the streets of Venice a very different place. Dry is better, for sure, but it was interesting to see the city under other conditions. Today we toured St. Mark’s Basilica and Read more
Many have told us the secret is to just have fun getting lost in the streets of Venice, which is exactly what we did accidentally on purpose. We walked about 12 miles our first day and loved every minute of Read more
🚗🚌🚝🛩🛩🚂🚅🚤 Do that for about 24 hours and then you’re there. Seriously, that’s it. *Dusts hands.* We may have ridden a donkey at some point, I’m not entirely sure. Anyhow, burro or not, we’ve arrived in Venice safely and I Read more
…full of hope and excitement, not yet beaten down by travel gnomes or jetlag dragons (letlaggons). Stay tuned for the after shot.
Before heading to Italy we made a short stopover in San Francisco to meet up with my parents and my brother’s family unit. We helped out the local tourism and shared economies by Lyfting our way from the AirBnb’s to Read more
We took the ferry over to one of the nearby islands on our last day, walked around a bunch and did some kayaking. The ferry holds 200 cars and something like a thousand people. Apparently most of the islanders commute Read more