Have you ever planned a day where you have lunch in one country and dinner in another? For our last day in Slovenia we drove west towards the coast to…

When we weren’t visiting all those churches, here’s what we saw during the rest of our time in Milan.

One fine Tuesday we rode the train north to visit the picturesque town of Como near the Swiss border. Only 30 minutes from Milan, the town sits at the southern end of the…

The cheapest way to see art and history in any Italian city is to visit churches and cemeteries.They rarely have admission costs and are open seven days a week. During…

We flew out of Athens on a warm Friday afternoon and into the northern Italian metropolis of Milan. Our first stop was the city’s cathedral, known as the Duomo. The…

About a 35-minute train ride out of Naples is the famous archaeological site of Pompeii. A Roman city that was buried in ash when the volcano Vesuvius erupted in AD…

For our fifth wedding anniversary Kim decided that she wanted to return to Italy. So after our guests had left, we hopped on a plane to Naples. We saw lots…

Our Italian tour concluded with three days in Venice, the gateway to the Orient. The city was capital of an independent state until 1866, when it joined with the Kingdom…

We spent one morning in Florence at the Palazzo Pitti, a former residence for the ruling Medici family that is now a museum and public garden. The museum is home…

After the days in wonderful Rome we took a train north to Florence, the largest city in Tuscany and the heart of the Renaissance. Tuscan food is now probably our…