That’s a question we get all the time. I try to answer it, but it’s not that simple. It’s like asking me to pick my favorite pair of shoes! We have loved (almost) every place we’ve been, for different reasons. So, being the diplomatic, facilitative, terrible decision-maker that I am, I’ve categorized my favorites. It’s […]
Aunt Janice has been one of our biggest supporters almost ever since she found out we were moving to Spain. At first she wasn’t too happy about it, but the more she learned about Spain, the more she wanted us to move so that they could visit. My mom (who thinks “Barcelona” is Catalan for […]
Our flight back to Barcelona left from Pisa, so it was the perfect way to spend our last day in Italy. There was really only one thing I wanted to accomplish there, and that was to climb the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It’s not the highest or the most magnificent thing that we have climbed, […]
Rome is quite different from the other cities we visited, mainly because it is much larger, so you get everything that goes along with a big city. If we were to compare it to a U.S. city, it would be Los Angeles – loads of attractions, entertainment & culture, but spread out amongst greater distances […]
Ah, the magnificent tourist trap that is Venice! We arrived on Sunday afternoon, and took a Vaporetto (water bus) to the stop nearest our bed & breakfast. The directions to our place read something like “cross the bridge, and turn left at the bank across from the toy store, walk for a bit, then turn […]
