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Today is our last day in Europe and we’re taking it easy. We wandered around the narrow streets of Naples. Our Airbnb is on Via dei Tribunali which seems to have like 100 pizzerias. We also went to The National Archaeological Museum of Naples. It was a great place to visit after visiting Pompeii the…

Yesterday Ashley and I visited the famous ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The ruins are massive and we walked the entire place in the hot summer sun. We saw so much and there is honestly so much to talk about so I’m going to just talk about two things, food and art. One of the…

Today is our last full day in Roman and it was filled with visiting churches. In the morning we took a tour of the Vatican, it was good but honestly too crowded to fully enjoy. Afterwards we visited the pantheon, which is very impressive. Afterwards we got gelato and headed to what ended up being…

Today we got to explore Rome some more and took an Italian cooking class. But I haven’t gotten a chance to talk about the amazing neighborhood we’re staying in, Campo de’ Fiori (meaning field of flowers). This area was mostly unused during Roman times, it frequently flooded. Eventually in the middle ages the Pope had…

Bruges, Belgium is sometimes referred to as the Venice of the north because it has 15 kilometers of canals. There has be a continuous settlement here since the 10th century. The city was a major textile trading center between 1200 and 1500. Though only a few of the buildings today date from that time period…

Today Ashley and I landed in London starting our four week European trip. After not sleeping for the over night flight the first thing I wanted in London was a cappuccino. I went to Bar Italia in Soho, the same cafe I want to 8 years ago with my sister. Its a tiny cafe that…