Venice can get a pretty bad rap. It is hard to tap into “real life” under the layers of tourists. There are endless leather shops, blown glass shops, big glossy menus promoting copious tourist lunches in English. Ok, it is not an undiscovered gem. But, I don’t care. There is something else. Venice is still […]
My parents arrived for their weeklong+ visit with us. After a few fun days of touring around Torino, we all boarded an early morning train for our first stop, Milan. Josh and I took the kids to Milan in August, in the blazing heat. It was quite a different experience to arrive in crisp, fall […]
We have very cool cousins (Doug, Diana and their daughter Ruhamah) that live in Geneva that I haven’t seen in years, so we have been looking forward to visiting them. If you look at the map, Geneva looks pretty darn close to Torino (150 miles). However, there is a bit of geography that adds to […]