During your trip to Rome and the Vatican this year take the opportunity to walk through the Holy Door and into Saint Peter’s Basilica! No matter what reason you have for visiting the Vatican City, take the opportunity to enter the Basilica in a rather special way! What is the Holy Door? The Holy Door is one…

Looking for the Best Leather in Florence? Wondering how to tell if it is real leather or not? Look no further, here are a 7 tips for telling genuine/real leather from fake leather in Florence! #1 Are low prices always a good thing? Inside the San Lorenzo Leather Market it is easy to be swept…

Looking for a few spots in Rome that are off the beaten-path? Take a fifteen-minute walk from the Colosseum and find yourself at the Aventine Hill. This beautiful and quiet area is one of my favorite vantage-points in Rome.  Walking from the Colosseum you will pass the Circus Maximus and reach your first destination on the…

Are you interested in taking an enchanting gondola ride on your next trip to Venice? Wondering how much to pay for a gondola ride or where to find the gondoliers? A gondola ride through Venice’s crisscrossing canals can be one of the most intimate ways to see the capitol city of Italy’s the Veneto region! Here…