by Jordan | May 15, 2015 | Europe, Featured, Italy, The First Grand Adventure
Milan is a very charming place, but in a very different way from the other Italian cities we’ve visited on our trip. We really owe a huge debt of gratitude to our friend Camilla for so graciously hosting us and showing us around. Our first afternoon in Milan we...
by Jordan | May 13, 2015 | Europe, Italy, The First Grand Adventure
Serendipity has truly graced this trip in many ways, and one of them was the overlap of our time in Milan with the World’s Fair. The theme for this year was “Feeding the World,” with a focus on relevant topics such as sustainability and innovation....
by Jordan | May 6, 2015 | Europe, Italy, The First Grand Adventure
After an evening in Milan with our friend Camilla, we headed out early the next morning for her family’s house in Baveno, a small town on Lake Maggiore. What a wonderful couple of days we had there! The weather was not quite cooperative as we mainly had clouds...
by Jordan | May 6, 2015 | Europe, Featured, Italy, The First Grand Adventure
Cinque Terre, meaning “five lands” in Italian, is a national park area along the Mediterranean composed of five small, stunning cliffside villages. And on April 28th we left Tuscany for a short visit in this new destination in Liguria. We arrived to stay...
by Jordan | Apr 30, 2015 | Europe, Italy, The First Grand Adventure
The week of April 13th was about as good as it gets. Our daily schedule: 1. Yoga We went to class first thing in the morning three times this week. There are few things that are better for starting the day than a trip to a yoga studio, and fewer still than going to a...
by Jordan | Apr 30, 2015 | Europe, Italy, The First Grand Adventure
Much of our last two weeks in Florence was spent at Infinity Firenze where we were doing a mini-apprenticeship in leather working. We had an absolute blast making belts and bags and learning all of the steps and about the tools involved in the process. My bags...
