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Jul 26 2022
T minus 5 days!
Europe has been having record high temperatures and Italy has many brush fires. Today, this is what the fire tracking looked like on the map. There don’t seem to be fires near our destinations, only on the train route from Florence to Venice. Fingers crossed 🤞🏽that our trip isn’t interrupted by these fires!
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Jul 31 2022
One of us got a fancy first class upgrade to Dulles. Guess who?
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Jul 31 2022
Ready for flight #2!
We got to see our plane really up close.
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Aug 01 2022
Stumbled onto some sights…
Castel Sant’Angelo is right by our hotel
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Aug 01 2022
Strolled on some beautiful side streets. So narrow but they still manage to get cars through.
It’s amazing how there are beautiful churches everywhere.
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Aug 01 2022
While we waited for our room to be ready, we headed out to explore. First stop… gelato 🍧
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Aug 01 2022
Our hotel is so pretty. So quiet off the crazy streets of rome.
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Aug 01 2022
We had an early dinner at the hotel. Lots of pizza and pasta!
Then we burned it all of by walking up Giancolo Hill in the 95 degree evening to get the best panoramic view of Rome.
Then… cheers to Rome!
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Aug 02 2022
It’s our first full day in Rome. We met with our tour guides Colin and Marco then had the morning to ourselves.
We took a cab to Piazza del Popolo. It’s HOT today! Even hotter than yesterday…97 degrees, no clouds, and no breeze!
We walked up lots of steps to the Terrazza del Pincio for a great few of Piazza del Popolo ⬇️
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Aug 02 2022
We walked back along the Tiber to Castel Sant’Angelo and saw the Corte Suprema di Cassazione (Supreme Court of Italy).
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Aug 02 2022
Walking from Castel Sant’Angelo we got a sneak peak of Basilica di San Pietro in the Vatican.
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Aug 02 2022
Our tour started!
Simone is our local Roman guide and will be with us for 3 days.
On our way to Rome, we saw the original Caesar’s Palace.
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Aug 02 2022
The Colosseum!
Construction of the Colosseum began in 72AD, and it was completed in 80AD.
After the great fire of 64 AD, in which a substantial portion of the city burned, Emperor Nero ordered the construction of a magnificent palace for himself in the area that had been devastated. The palace was the Domus Aurea (which today is being excavated and can be visited). Needless to say, the citizens of Rome were not happy about this, so when Nero was deposed and Emperor Vespasian ascended to the throne, he had Nero’s palace complex torn down and ordered that the Colosseum be built on top what had been an artificial lake. The Colosseum was to become a grand amphitheater where all Roman citizens could seek entertainment.
It held 55,000 spectators!
You can see pieces missing where people took materials to build their own houses. Ancient recycling!
The original entrance gate numbers are still present ⬇️
We got to see the underground area up close, where they had the gladiator “locker rooms.”
The architect couldn’t get enough! ⬇️
The Colosseum bagno ⬇️
The “nosebleed seats” in the colosseum where the poorer people sat. ⬇️ Tickets were free to all, though!
The emperor’s view from where his “box seats” were. ⬇️ Close to the ground (no elevators back then) and on the 50 yard line 😆
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Aug 02 2022
Tonight, we had our welcome dinner at the hotel. The food was great, but this fresh mozzarella was amazing!
And now we have an early bedtime because we have an early start tomorrow morning… heading out for a private tour of the Vatican at 5:30am!
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Aug 03 2022
The Vatican Museums are amazing! We got to see them all before they open to the public so we had the chance to see everything properly.
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Aug 03 2022
We got to have a private breakfast in the Vatican courtyard before our waking tour of Rome.
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Aug 03 2022
The Trevi Fountain. Legend says that if you throw a coin into the fountain, you will come back to Rome. The proper way to do it is with your right hand over your left shoulder, without looking back at the fountain.
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Aug 03 2022
We came back to the Pantheon but this time we got to go inside. It was an ancient Roman pagan temple that was made into a church. Because it was a Roman temple first, it’s round, not in the shape of a cross like most churches are.
The roof has an oculus, an open hole for sunlight (and rain). It’s a marvel of ancient architecture and engineering.
We learned that the dome is 5 feet larger than the dome of Basilica di San Pietro. It is thought that Michelangelo intentionally made the Vatican dome slightly smaller out of respect for the ancient architecture of the Pantheon.
The tomb of Raphael ⬇️ in the Pantheon.
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Aug 03 2022
We walked to Piazza Navona with its fountain with four sides dedicated to the largest river on four continents.
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Aug 03 2022
The Museo di Roma is housed in the last noble house built in the city. After the King of Italy increased property taxes, noble houses this large weren’t built anymore.
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Aug 03 2022
Pizza lunch in Campo de Fiori
Pizza #1 Margherita
Even Papa loved the pizza and cleaned his plate!
Pizza #2 prosciutto
Pizza #3 salami
Pizza #4 Nutella
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Aug 03 2022
After a few hours of downtime at the hotel, we headed back out for some souvenir shopping in the streets between Piazza Navona and the Pantheon.
Then, another early night with bedtime snacks 😊
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Aug 04 2022
Riyaan got to see the Vespas he’s been on the lookout for.
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Aug 04 2022
We are headed to Basilica di San Pietro for a morning tour, then on the bus for a drive to Orvieto.
We took a secret passage from the street across from our hotel to Piazza San Pietro. We emerged right into the square.
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Aug 04 2022
We had lunch and a little free time in Orvieto. Orvieto, a medieval town built on a steep mountaintop, has many homes, shops, and restaurants below ground to keep things cool.
We had lunch in an underground restaurant.
We had some free time to walk around.
It was HOT so we found a cool treat 😊
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Aug 04 2022
On the way to our Tuscan hotel, we watched Pinocchio on the bus. The movie takes place in Italy and many souvenir shops sell Pinocchio dolls.
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Aug 04 2022
After arriving at our hotel in Tuscany, we had a dinner, then the kids had movie night with the tour guides while the adults had time to mingle.
The hotel is built from buildings made for the Pope’s home. It is made of several different buildings, resembling a medieval town.
The dinner was mushroom risotto with truffle, pork chop wrapped in bacon with mashed potato, and breadfruit cheesecake. All were amazing! Riyaan had pasta with red sauce and chicken scalloppini; also delicious!
We also got our first taste of Tuscan wine in Tuscany.
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Aug 05 2022
We finally had a slower start this morning, at 9am 😊
After breakfast, we are taking the bus to the farm where we will have a pasta-making class and wine tasting.
The drive through the hills of Tuscany was beautiful!
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Aug 05 2022
We learned how to make pasta!
We saw their wine-making process. The red wine is aged for 12 months in French oak barrels.
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Aug 05 2022
Amazing wine- and pasta- tasting lunch at the farm.
The kids got to make flavored olive oil. He very thoughtfully made a bottle for mummy 😊
Trush graduated from Pasta University
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Aug 05 2022
After 3 courses, wine tasting, and dessert, we all needed a break.
Tuscany is hotter than Rome 😱
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Aug 06 2022
We are off to Florence! A beautiful start to the day but it will be HOT later.
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Aug 06 2022
We got to see Michaelangelo’s statue of David up close. It’s carved from one piece of marble and took 3 years to complete. The level of detail in the carving is incredible.
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Aug 07 2022
Colin keeping the kids entertained while waiting for our gondolas.
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