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Florence: The Gift to Humanity, Part 1 (Architecture & Art)
Florence has been the gift to humanity left to us by prior generations for centuries. The banking wealth of Florence enabled the city to flourish during the Renaissance and the Medici, along with other banking families, funded numerous construction and art projects helping to create the jewel that is Florence. I absolutely love Florence. It
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Travelling with my Little in Italy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I love to travel and when I got pregnant with my daughter, one of my conditions to my husband was that we still travelled and I got at least one stamp in passport every year, even if it meant driving of the border into Mexico (which is an hour drive for us as we live
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Milan: The Most Stylish City
This October my sister and I went to Italy for a couple of weeks. She had the excuse of a work conference in Verona (for three of those days). I took the opportunity to tag along and have a girls trip. This is the first time I have travelled without my six year-old daughter that
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SEO Rambling Post
I “started” this project as a way for a creative outlet or to just document my own adventures for my own sake and if it proved useful for others in their adventures as well all the better. However, I have never been able to commit. I will make a post or two and then go
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Starting my French Journey
About three days before I left for my trip I decided to start learning French. Obviously not very useful for this particular trip (also we were only in Paris three days our main destination was Venice). I didn’t study while I was travelling because I was too busy enjoying my trip. But now that I
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Packing for Paris and Venice
As I have mentioned in a previous post, I have a one carry-on suitcase approach to packing. I slightly deviated from that this trip. For my actual packing I kept to that rule. However, I had to pack our costumes for the carnevale masquerade ball we attended in Venice. So I had to bring a
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Raising an Adventurer
I was Afraid Having Children Would Interfere with my Ability to Travel I didn’t want kids. All I wanted was to travel and have adventures. I thought having a child would put a damper on that. After spending a long time going to school (undergrad and then law school) and starting my career, I didn’t
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What I Buy In Paris Everytime
I always like to shop in Paris. I shop for pretty much everything, clothing, shoes, leather goods, art, home decor, you name it. However, there a few essential items that I go out of my way to bring home every trip and I will dedicate an entire day if I have to to grabbing these
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The Mistake that Forever Changed How I Pack And My Top 5 Packing Rules
The Mistake Many years ago I was travelling with my sister to Europe. We fly into London, spent a few days there and then took the Chunnel into Paris and stayed in Paris for a little over a week. This wasn’t my first trip to Europe and by this point I knew that travelling with