Day 3 Florence: Museum Madness
Elizabeth Soule
Most of the big tourist sites in Florence work on a reservation system now, including museums, so it’s important to figure out those time slots first and then plan the…
Italy 2026
Florence Day 1: Arrival and Exploring
To travel from Rome to Florence, we took the high speed rail train run by Italo. Since we bought our tickets months in advance, we got a great deal on…
Rome Day 4: Meandering
While we are both “planners” when it come to travel, sometimes flexibility is a necessity. We originally planned for a day trip on Day 4. By the end of Day…
Rome Day 3: Ancient Rome
Our feet still aching from the long day at the Vatican, we made our way to the Colosseum early in the morning for our tour. We booked our tour through…
Rome Day 2: Vatican City
Jetlag won again on Day 2, and we were both up at 4:30. That meant it was no problem for us to head over to the Vatican for an early…
Rome Day 1: Exploring Centro Storico
While we planned an early morning originally, jet lag got the best of us and the morning started very early indeed with both of us up by 4:30am. We took…
Flight to Italy
Things got off to a less than ideal start when we tried to use the self-checkin kiosks at SeaTac, hoping to just print our luggage tags so we could drop…