As promised after posting about culture shock, I wanted to share some tips for helping your friends or family adjust to being back home. So I guess these are really tips for reverse culture shock,…
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24 August 2020
Reverse culture shock
This post may seem a little out of place being published now, but I don’t think there is ever a wrong time to talk about culture shock and the waves of emotion and frustration that…
5 August 2020
Unfiltered in Anzio
Anzio is easily one of my favorite beach towns near Rome, even if I visited in early October and didn’t get the chance to test the waters. It was clear from the beginning that the…
20 May 2020
Books to transcend time and place
Most of my favorite books are the ones that have transported me to another era, usually the past but sometimes to a dystopian future, and have given me the feeling that I’ve arrived in a…
6 May 2020
A visual journey through Napoli
My first time in Napoli surprised me. I fell in love with it the minute I set my eyes on it, stepping outside of the train station on a sunny October day. The sky was…
I was so burdened by the labels people put on me that I couldn’t discover who I really was until I shed them all, and everyone who had known me, to find myself. I went…
19 April 2020
The art of taking a pause
it’s hard not to feel like we’re wasting valuable precious time right now, but it’s out of our control and for a lot of us, we are just lucky to be healthy at home. I’d…
15 April 2020
Where I traveled in 2019
better late than never! I totally spaced out on publishing this blog post around the new year, but it was a busy time for me as I had just returned to the states and was…
16 March 2020
A personal plea
After watching Italy suffer for weeks and continue to suffer, I don’t want the same thing to happen anywhere else. Please take this seriously, if not for yourself then for your loved ones and the…
10 February 2020
A perfect day in Pisa
Between the time my train arrived and departed I had seven hours. My day trip to Pisa ended up being a solo trip at the last minute, as my friend who I was supposed to…
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Traveling to Italy and in need of tips on where to go, what to see, and what to eat? After living in Florence and Rome and traveling extensively throughout Italy, I’d love to offer my recommendations on how to have the best time in the most beautiful country in the world.


















