Turns out, Slovenia trails have been pretty dependably STRAIGHT UP the mountain. These folks are way tougher than we are! We went on what we had read was an Easy-Moderate hike, good for families… but it was brutal! …
We took a cable car up the mountain, then we walked (or took the chairlift, depending on who wanted to hike up the hill with the dog and who wanted a ride). Then ended in an alpine settlement…
First we visited Lake Bled, a popular tourist destination that is beautiful but that I hated. There were a ton of people there, all just walking around the busy lake with a ton of cars, bikers, and other…
We went on our Leave vacation! Goodbye hot Naples! We took a road trip north to Slovenia, about a 10 hour drive. We stopped for the first night in Bologna to break up the drive, then the next…
After Matt returned from Ukraine, we drove 3 hours south to the border of Basilicata and Calabria, at the “instep” of Italy’s boot, on the Ionian Sea. We LOVE this sea– it is so clean, clear, and calm,…
Matt and I went walking and eating our way through downtown Naples…. again. It’s been a little while since we visited, and it sure is different right now from how it has been this past year: it is…
Matt has been out of town in the Ukraine to play music at a military festival there, so the kids and I have been way busy with fun stuff. We took Rosa and the kids up to Monte…
Cedar’s Scouts troop created a Summer Camp for a week. They camped at our local military park and took a lot of day trips– rafting, caves, rivers, snorkeling, etc. Cedar had a BLAST. Scouts is so awesome. I…
We visited Sorrento again, and just wandered around being tourists. We got a bit drunk from the limoncello samples we kept getting, since we were the only tourists in the shop (usually it is packed full of tourists,…
More chess in Vomero for Cedar, and adventuring around the town for Jess and Matt. One time we brought a new band family with us and explored Castel St’Elmo. I love watching the way the men gather together…
