With Munich as a home base, and access to a great train system, day trips to villages within Bavaria and the Austrian town of Salzburg are easy. Salzburg is famous for being the birthplace of Mozart and the setting of the musical The Sound of Music. Alysia was excited about the various...

Twenty years after my last German class, I finally made it to Germany!! I had dreamed about this since high school and now sadly could not remember much of the German that I had learned. Luckily, everybody speaks really good English in Munich, so the pressure was off. I still was able to...

♦Guest post by Kari Mayhew♦ After just a few days in Italy, it was very clear that the Italians liked to, well, test you a bit. Serve you bread early and see if you scarf it down or (the right way) save it to mop up your sauce.  Have multiple buses narrowly miss mowing you down in the...

♦Guest Post by Kari Mayhew♦ After four fun filled days in Madrid (where I learned ham is its own food group, Real Madrid is more important than the Holy Trinity and hobo beers on a bridge while watching a pigeon take a bath was exactly where I wanted to be), I was primed for more good...

The famous Palio horse race in Siena only lasts about 90 seconds, but the memories will last a lifetime.  Imagine a giant crowd squished into one of the most beautiful medieval town squares screaming in excitement as horses with jockeys riding bareback fly past you just an arms distance...

We’ve had friends and family comment on the volume of decadent food we are eating during our travels and wonder how we aren’t gaining weight. Other friends have expressed concern that we will be unrecognizable upon return to the US. So, as a companion post to our Siena cuisine blog, here...