We arrived in Turin (yes, that is Torino in Italian) at dusk on a Friday evening. We came by train, taking elevators up from our platform into a shiny, seemingly new station. We later learned that our point of entry, Porta Susa, is a train station built in 2013, new indeed! Taking a short and […]
Living
Moving to Italy: “Nothing is Good if it is Easy”
While we have been sharing the very rosy side of our trip, there is one slice of our travel pie that has gone unmentioned. It has cost us many, many hours of stress, planning and worrying. In order to move to Italy for more than 90 days, a visa is required. I know that sounds […]
Sylvie Goes to Sleep Away Camp
There is a rite of passage for many kids across the US of a certain age—summer camp. The more rarefied version of this—sleep away camp. I had the benefit of getting to go to a few sleep away camps in my youth. Josh did not. So, when I floated the idea to him that it […]