Caio Rome
Our last stop of the trip, beautiful Roma! Our apartment is so awesome. We are in the Trastevere area of Rome, which is walking distance to the Coliseum and to the heart of the city. This area has narrow…
Europe
Nonna's town - Roccacasale
Today I had the privilege to visit the little town on the side of a mountain where my Nonna was born and lived until her teens. It is about an hour and a half east of Rome, right in the middle of Italy. It was super…
Glamping in Tuscany
It was a long drive to Tuscany - between Blake's car sickness and the construction zones, it took us an extra 3 hours to arrive at our Glamping destination. For those of you that don't know, glamping is a short…
Val di Fassa - A Wonderful Area To Play
Christian, Terry and Blake had an opportunity to go for a bike ride along the valley trail. There is a trail that goes from the top of the valley, through each little village down to the bottom. Then there is an…
Via Ferrata - A Multigenerational Sport!
Mama Mia - this event deserves it's own post. When I saw the via ferrata in Switzerland, I became obsessed with finding out more about them and figuring out when I could try it. I quickly discovered that via…
Pozza di Fassa, Italy - arriving in the Dolomites
Yesterday we had a great drive from Switzerland, through Austria and into Italy. I am happy that the borders between countries do not check passports because when we drove into Austria I totally forgot to find our…
Holy Cow - There are so many cows in Switzerland!
For our last day in Lauterbrunnen, we decided to take the tram up to Gruschalp and do the hour walk across to Murren. It is a beautiful walk with a stop half way at a teeny weeny place called Winteregg. Here we found…
A lazy day in Lauterbrunnen
We had a nice quiet day today. This gave us a chance to check out the little shops in Lauterbrunnen, walk to the waterfall and do some carving with the new swiss army knives! rainy day in Lauterbrunnen - still…
Train ride to the top of Europe - Jungfraujoch, Switzerland
We left at 9am for the Jungfraujoch - the Top of Europe tour. This 100 year old train ride climbs 3200m up the mountain, through a few mountain villages along the way. The first hour of the crowded train ride was…
Monster Scooters
Despite the rainy day, we found ourselves going up a gondola in Haslital Switzerland to rent Monster Scooters. These scooters were super fun! We went up the gondola and rode the scooters down (in the rain) and then…
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
Lauterbrunnen is a little town 20 minutes from Interlaken Switzerland, and it's name means "many waterfalls" because there are 72 of them. From here there are gondolas that go up to carfree villages and there is…
Childrens adventure trail - Murren, Switzerland
What an epic hike! The children's adventure trail begins in Murren, a picturesque car-less city on top of a mountain. We had to take 2 steep and stunning gondola rides to get to Murren. On the way up, we could see…
Geneva - A day of mistakes
We found out online that there is a large swiss army knife store in Geneva. We considered making the 45 minute detour to drive through Geneva on our way to Lauterbrunnen to find this store so the kids could buy their…
Chamonix
We went for our first real road trip from Menton, France, through Italy to Chamonix, France. I'm afraid I LOVE this Audi A8 that we rented, it is so nice to drive. It is so powerful and smooth you don't even notice…
Taking in the Mediteranean
We arrived safe and sound at our apartment in Menton, France. Our travel day was surprisingly easy. We barely slept on the plane and we came close to missing our connection in Munich. We were able to navigate to our…