Quintessential Provence

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Traveling with your youngster

Traveling can be exhausting and challenging at times (especially when exploring outside the country). Traveling with a baby can be even more so. But there are ways to make it easier, as my husband and I discovered while in Europe this summer with our 2 month old daughter, Clara. Overall, we found traveling with a [...]

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Chianti Classico – Firenze – Memories

The birthdays of me and my wife fall sixteen days apart; mine the fifteenth of August and her’s the thirty-first. Instead of celebrating only on our actual birthdays we have declared a two week long celebration. What does this mean in terms of wine? It means we have a great excuse to pull out some [...]

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5Terre

Earlier today I was reading through Rick Steve’s take on vacationing to Italy’s Cinque Terre and caught myself day dreaming back to the two times I have visited the region.  One of them was 8 years ago this April.  Time flies, that is for sure.  These five towns are one of the must sees in [...]

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Tavola Rosso Florence Travel Guide

Florence is a special place for many reasons, and I share many great memories of this town with both family and friends. The ancient city is unchanged, yet very different than it was during the days of Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, da Vinci, and Dante.  The streets and the buildings seem immovable and that they will live [...]

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