I was absolutely starving. We had been wandering around the Roman Ruins and lakeside town of Sirmione all day in the heat. Every restaurant menu in Sirmione featured fish and seafood, presumably not fresh from the lake since I’ve never heard of a lake squid, at nearly triple the price I’ve seen anywhere else in […]
Gromo Medieval Fair
One of our favorite ways to explore Italy is by car. Though there is a pretty good train infrastructure in Italy, we find it is usually more expensive to travel longer distances by train for two people and the train just doesn’t afford us the freedom to get off-the-tourist-path like a car does. As we […]
Cascate del Serio: Italy’s Highest Waterfall
We’ve lived in Italy for a little more than four years now and we still have so much of it to discover. While admittedly we’re a little worn out on just walking around old cities, we’ve turned our focus to much more adventure travel around Italy like exploring Italy’s many caves, camping, and long distance […]
12 Spectacular Rooms With a View
Rooms with a view are ones you want to hang out spending time in. Think dreamy over water bungalows you can dive right in to the ocean from and stunning castles surrounded by dreamy countryside. We’ve certainly stayed in our share, and we’re always searching for more spectacular rooms with a view. But for now, […]
Sipping Amarone at Fratelli Vogadori
Fratelli Vogadori is a small family-run winery in Negrar in the heart of the Valpolicella. Three brothers, Alberto, Gaetano and Emanuele, work together to produce wonderful wines and olive oil from their land. They are the third generation running this picturesque winery. The Fratelli brothers’ hospitality began before we even set foot in their winery. […]
The Curse of Castello di Miramare
With a commanding presence over the Gulf of Trieste, Castello di Miramare (or the Castle of Miramare) is majestic. Growing up, I used to pretend my house was a castle and as I begrudgingly did chores like the dishes, I would imagine I was Cinderella. Castello di Miramare practically fit the bill for the type […]
Pula Arena
There’s a reason Edward Gibbon’s The Rise and the Fall of the Roman Empire is the size of a telephone book. The Roman Empire stretched for 2,750,000 square kilometers in its’ height. To put that in perspective, the Roman Empire covered an area of what is today 53 countries, from Russia in Europe to Morocco […]
Grotta Gigante: The World’s Largest Tourist Cave
Italy is know for a lot of things – pizza, pasta, the Colosseum, gelato, and Ferrari. But did you know Italy is also one of the countries that has the most caves on Earth? More than 35,000 in fact! And the Friuli Venezia Giulia, the little region in the north of Italy that we call […]
Wine Wednesday: Allegrini Estates
The vineyards of the Valpolicella are tucked between Verona and the shores of Lake Garda. Once with a reputation for churning out wine so cheap it was only suitable for ordering at pizzerias, the Valpolicella now produces some of Italy’s finest reds. So when we wanted to discover the wines of the valley of many […]
10 Fun Facts about the Colosseum
Sometimes I find it is hardest to write about the world’s best known tourist attractions, like the Colosseum or the Eiffel Tower. I could give you a history lesson, but you can get that from just about any other website or from any Rick Steve’s or Frommers guidebook. I could rattle off numbers about its […]
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