Cliff note's version: Lido San Lorenzo = awesome (and spendy). They deliver food and drinks to your chair! Long version: My friend Annie and I loaded up the kids Tuesday for a trip to a beach she'd visited before, Lido San Lorenzo. It is located near Noto (a town we
Month: August 2017
Well, this post is about a week overdue -- it's been a crazy week trying to finish a bunch of assignments and get ready for Fiona's birthday party -- so just pretend you are reading this last Sunday, k? Anyway, on Friday (Aug. 18) the kids and I went to the Feste Medievali (medieval festival) in Motta Sant'Anastasia [...]
And it looks like this blog is going to be posted just barely in time to still be the anniversary (here in Sicily, anyway). That's so entirely my style, it is ridiculous. Especially since I'm currently using the pressing "need" for this blog as a reasonable excuse to take a break from a different assignment. Anyway. [...]
Must-see Sicily: Alcantara Gorge
The Alcantara Gorge. Guys, this is some must-see Sicily! So the first thing we saw as we walked up to the Alcantara Gorge riverbank was someone losing one of their shoes, and totally failing in her half-hearted attempt to save it. We laughed. [...]Basically conversations with Chris lately have gone something like this: "So I'm thinking we should go to (place name) over Columbus Day weekend." "We're going to Oktoberfest right before that and Venice after, it is too much." "Huh? No, I'm talking about the next Columbus Day. 2018!" " ... seriously?" S [...]
Unexpected benefits of traveling with young children
Traveling with young children often gets a pretty bad rap. People talk all the time about wanting to do certain types of trips "before we have kids," as if the baby's first cry sounds the death knell for travel ambitions. I sa [...]It's been scorching hot this summer in Sicily, but we've been trying to lean into island living (ok, and beat the heat!) by hitting the beach as often as possible. As I've mentioned before, we've mostly been going to
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