Here’s the one thing I refuse to do on a trip to Italy with kids – wait in line. So far we have been incredibly lucky. We have made advance reservations whenever we could, we encountered no lines anywhere else like the Duomo in Florence and the Palazzo Ducale in Venice because we went late [...]
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Day 20 Rome and The Vatican (so that’s where all the marble went)
Posted in Italy, Travel, tagged Italy, pieta, Rome, rome restaurants, travel with kids, Vatican on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Day 19 – Tuscania and a Day of Rest (with incredible views)
Posted in Italy, Travel, tagged italian food, Italy, lake bolsena, miralago, montefiascone on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After exhausting ourselves in Rome and getting home very late we slept in on Sunday and decided to have a relaxing local day by Lake Bolsena. We called ahead to make a reservation at Da Paolino al Miralago restaurant in Montefiascone a city perched high above the lake on verdant cliffs. We have learned our [...]
Day 18 – When in Rome (Let Your Inner Tourist Shine Through)
Posted in Italy, Travel, tagged colosseum, driving in Italy, forum, Italy, pantheon, Rome, Tour bus, trevi fountain on July 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here is my philosophy on being a tourist: You will not fit in. You will not pass as a local. You are a tourist. Grab your camera, spread out your map and get on with it. Living in Manhattan makes you privy to all sorts of bad tourist behavior from all ends of the earth. [...]
Day 17 Staying Cool in Tuscania
Posted in Italy, Travel, tagged italian food, Italy, pizza, Rome, Tour bus, Tuscania, Vatican on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We spent the the day in Tuscania going to the market and trying to stay cool on the hottest day so far. I spent most of the day planning our field trip to Rome the next day when the heat was supposed to break. I’m big on planning. I don’t believe in just winging it [...]
Day 16 – Pitigliano It’s So Not (Jewish) Ghetto
Posted in Italy, Travel, tagged anti-semitism, family travel, ghetto, italian food, Italy, jews of italy, pitigliano on July 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
There is something about being outside of New York that always makes me feel more Jewish. I don’t know exactly what that means, but when I lived in London being Jewish was actually something people asked me about. As if it were somewhat foreign or exotic. Neither of which I consider it to be. In [...]
Days 14 and 15 – The Arrival of Granny and a Day in Orvieto
Posted in Italy, Travel, tagged caves, duomo, family travel, funicular, handmade dolls, italian desserts, italian food, Italy, orvieto, porcelain dolls on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My mom (Granny) flew in to stay with us for the week. We drove an hour and a half to the Rome airport to pick her up and then an hour and a half to bring her back here to Tuscania. Between all that driving, making lunch, her jet lag and the girls’ excitement over [...]
Day 13 – Viterbo and The Italian Wal-Mart
Posted in Italy, Travel, tagged eating in Italy, family travel, italian food, Italian wine, Italy, viterbo on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We finally decided that Sophia’s cough was going to linger no matter what we did so we figured an easy day of lunch in the old town of Viterbo followed by a pilgrimage to the Iper Coop “shopping experience” would make for a good first venture out into the world for her. (And me!) We [...]
Days 11 and 12 – Groundhog Day – Italian Style
Posted in Italy, Travel, tagged board games, family travel, gelato, Italy, terme dei papi, thermal springs, Tom and Jerry, viterbo on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Same day, twice. With Sophia still sick we decided to take it easy and let her rest in the house. That meant that Corey took Isabel to the market, to lunch and to the pool. At one point they also attempted to go to the farm at Casa Caponetti but they missed the turn and [...]
Day 10 – It’s not a vacation until someone gets sick
Posted in Italy, Travel, tagged eating in Italy, Italian cheese, Italian Supermarket, Italian wine, Italy, Looney Tunes, sick kid, Tom and Jerry, Tuscania on July 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It was bound to happen. We came prepared. But still, when Sophia’s skin turned so hot to the touch that it seemed her pajamas gave off steam, it was a serious disappointment and just plain sucked. So she and I spent the day at home; her on the couch watching Tom and Jerry and Looney [...]
Day 9 – Siena – (All About La Famiglia)
Posted in Italy, Travel, tagged antibiotics, david sedaris, duomo, family travel, gelato, GPS, Italy, Siena on July 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We packed up the car and drove to Siena to meet Mindy (Corey’s sister) and Mark (her husband) and their family. The drive was gorgeous, through Chianti and the Tuscan hills. The girls even abandoned their Leapsters instead tuning into When You’re Engulfed in Flames, the audio book by David Sedaris that we were listening [...]
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