Category: Travel

Sleepy Italian Villages Where a Home Costs Less Than a Car

Heads up: some links below are affiliate links. They cost you nothing extra and help keep this blog free. I only share people and places we genuinely love. I have a habit I am not proud of. Every time we fall in love with a small town, I quietly look up what a house costs there. And in a lot of these sleepy Italian villages, […]

Florence to the Italian Alps: An Off-the-Beaten-Path Family Road Trip

Heads up: some links below are affiliate links. They cost you nothing extra and help keep this blog free. I only share people and places we genuinely love. Most families do Italy the same way. Florence, Rome, maybe the coast, all in a rush, all in line. We did something slower, and it turned out to be the best trip we have taken as a […]

Day Trips From Ormea: Garessio, Pieve di Teco & the Real Italian Alps

Heads up: some links below are affiliate links. They cost you nothing extra and help keep this blog free. I only share people and places we genuinely love. If you read my Ormea guide, you already know we fell hard for this little mountain town. But part of what makes Ormea such a good base is what is around it. You are sitting right where […]

Ormea With Kids: The Italian Mountain Town That Stole Our Hearts

Heads up: some links below are affiliate links. If you book or buy through them it costs you nothing extra, and it helps keep this blog free. I only ever share the people and places we genuinely love. I had never heard of Ormea until a friend sent us there. We almost did not go. It is not on a single “Italy with kids” list, […]

Panama with a Baby: The Ultimate Family Travel Guide

Panama with a Baby: The Ultimate Family Travel Guide “Are you CRAZY? Panama with a baby?!” That’s what people said when we told them we were taking Atlas (17 months) to Panama for two weeks and creating the ultimate family travel guide to Panama with a baby. But here’s the truth: Panama was one of the EASIEST countries we’ve traveled with a baby. Yes, easier […]