One year ago exactly, we were enjoying our final full day in beautiful Northern Italia. Instead, today we are at home, craving a plane ride to a new destination and digesting the news that the President has COVID-19. What a difference a year makes! Enough of that. Back to Italy… Our last day was an… Read More Northern Italy – Florence, Pisa & Cinque Terre
The Emilia-Romagna region is a well-known for it’s food – most of which you’d recognize by name: Parmigiano-Reggiano, Prosciutto di Parma, Balsamic Vinegar, and more… so we were obviously excited to spend some time here! Tuesday, October 1 Parma On our way to Bologna for the night, we stopped in the Province of Parma for… Read More Northern Italy – Emilia-Romagna Region
Today is National Virtual Vacation Day. And as we’re navigating this crazy COVID-19 situation and are living under the Safer at Home order here in CA, I’m dreaming of the day when our friends and family are safe, and we can travel in real life again. So, in honor of the holiday, let’s continue our… Read More Northern Italy – Venice
Only a short distance from Milan, Lake Maggiore has some of the most beautiful landscapes in the country. It’s the 2nd largest lake in Italy (behind Lake Garda) and borders both Italy and Switzerland. Not far from the east side of Lake Maggiore, and just over the Swiss border, is Lake Lugano. I had no… Read More Northern Italy – Lake Maggiore, Lake Lugano and Lake Como
Soak up alllll the info. That’s my style. So I did a ton of research on how best to get around to all the lakes, and pretty much all of the blogs & vlogs we found suggested a car rental, particularly for the northern lakes area. There were a couple times I think we could… Read More Northern Italy – To Drive or Not to Drive?
