Heads up: some links below are affiliate links. They cost you nothing extra and help keep this blog free. I only share what our family truly loved. Xoxo. Everyone goes to Peru for Machu Picchu. Almost nobody tells you about Trujillo. And yet, if you ask my girls about their favorite part of our whole Peru trip, this is the place they name. Trujillo with […]
Everybody wants to go to Italy. Almost nobody actually wants what Italy has become in high summer: forty degree heat, lines that wrap around every famous thing, and towns so packed with visitors that you can barely find an Italian. We love this country too much to keep experiencing it that way. So here is the other way, the slow way, and exactly where to […]
Quick note: a few links below are affiliate links, at no cost to you, that help keep this blog free. I only share what our family genuinely uses. Xoxo. This is the question I got most before we left, and the one I want to answer honestly, because fear keeps so many families home. Is Peru safe for families? In our real experience, traveling here […]
Quick note: a few of the links below are affiliate links. They cost you nothing extra and help keep this blog free. I only share what our family truly used. Xoxo. Cusco stole my heart. Cobblestone streets, golden light, markets full of color, and the Sacred Valley spread out below it like something from a dream. If you are planning Cusco with kids, this is […]
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, […]
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 […]