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Devouring Rome's sites, bites, and culture in just 4 days

Our final leg of our European trip is ditching the holiday theme and focusing on family adventures through the Eternal City of Rome. My mission is to give our kids the most authentic Roman experience Vat-i-can—by taking them through a colosseum worth of sites and bites in just 4 days. There’s a lot to squeeze in, so let’s put our big boy pantheon—and start devouring.

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Milan to Paris by high-speed train: better than flying?

After spending the past week in Florence and Milan, we’re leaving Italy and traveling to a killer 2-bedroom suite in the heart of Paris. By train. That takes 7 hours. And gets us into the city late enough that we’ll be cramming into a temporary room for the night and completing our journey about 24 hours from now. Will this trip feel like a scenic and relaxing journey through the French countryside? Or a never-ending trek with eight bags and couple of tired and hungry kids? We’re about to find out.

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First impressions of Milan, Italy

This week, we’ve retraced Leonardo da Vinci’s steps from nearly 550 years ago as we’ve left Tuscany’s Florence and trekked north to the finance, fashion, food and design Mecca of Milan in Italy’s Lombardy region.

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Finding food, friends, and fashion in Florence, Italy

Today, we’re back in Florence, Italy and we’re meeting our past guide and current friend, Silvia Ponticelli, to give her a tour of our 600-year-old palazzo on the Arno river—and for her to walk us through the history of Florentine Fashion. Florence was named the most beautiful city in the world by Forbes magazine—we’re gonna show you why.

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Best Restaurants in Florence Italy in 2022

After our previous episode where we took a Florence, Italy walking tour to find the best street food in town, we’re kicking things up a notch to find the best restaurants in Florence, Italy in 2022.

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His-and-her estate wineries in Chianti Classico—whose is best?

After spending the day with winery director Bernardo from the Colle Bereto winery in Chianti Classico on our trip to Tuscany a few months ago, we decided to visit his wife's operation at Fattoria di Montemaggio for a full winery tour and wine tasting—and see if we could choose a favorite between the two!

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