This post is so overdue, I'm sure I'm not going to do it justice. The Ireland part of our trip was so much easier to do the post for because I wrote the text for it on the plane home. This one I procrastinated and procrastinated and now I'm writing from memory more than a month later. It's so sad how our memories of amazing experiences escape us so quickly. I can tell people that I loved the trip to...
Thanks for following along on our Italy trip! Parts 1 (Rome) and 2 (Florence) recapped with the links here. Oh Venice. I wanted you to be my favorite. I still love you oh so much, but Florence was such a tough act to follow. As I mentioned in the last post about Florence, my travel experience tends to relate to my expectations. When we went to Hawaii I had incredibly high expectations, and thankfully Maui more than exceeded them. When I went...
Oh Florence, I love you more than I ever expected to. I was terrible when it came to planning this trip. I bought the Frommer's Italy book, read that if you only have a week you should do 3 nights in Rome, 2 in Florence, 2 in Venice and basically booked just that. Minus one night from Rome and plus one for Venice. I figured I'd read up on the rest later. And then I got busy and later never...
Hey friends! I'm writing this Wednesday night as we finish up our final day in Rome! Tomorrow morning we head out to Florence and I can't wait to see what the next leg of our trip will bring! Rome has been an amazing start to what already is an incredible vacation. So much history, art, culture, and delicious food. On our first day, we got to our hotel and started off by taking a four hour nap. A big no-no...