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La dolce vita (the sweet life) in Rome 🇮🇹 1

La dolce vita (the sweet life) in Rome 🇮🇹
1. Get the cheapest wine on the menu
2. Don’t eat at the restaurants near tourist attractions.
3. “Rome” the streets to find areas of paradise
4. Tourist season is year round
5. Unlike Paris you don’t need dinner reservations anywhere just pop in to any delicious Trattoria and your belly will be filled with something delicious
6. Pack-black boots and sneakers
7. Try the 4 pastas! Cacio e peppe, Bucatini all’amatriciana, Spaggheti alla carbonara, Pasta alla Gricia

Some places we visited (and recommend)
🕍 Jewish Ghetto try the Artichokes (Carciofi alla Giudia) Bar Ghetto (the place Stanley tucci visits is closed)
☕️ Forno Monteforte/Caffe ai Banchi Vecchi
🍷 tutto bene!
🧀 Cacio della Campagna Romana (try the stravecchio and pecorino romana (for all pasta dishes made from 🐐 Parmigiano is from 🐄
🍕 Rossioli Antico Forno-flatbread style in Rome-travel to Naples for the best!
🍝 Agri Romana/Pasta Mimi e Coco, La Canonica (in Trastevere)/Maccarone il Pastificio
🇮🇹 Suppli dei Coronari
👓 Spanish Steps
🛍️ Via di Montseratto
🌁 Castel Sant Angelo/Ponte Vittorio Manuel
🚿 Tiber River
🥕 Campo de fiori
🍨 Two Sizes (Tiramisu comes in 2 sizes and the names for real)
🍧 Cremi Gelateria Piazza Navona
👼🏻 Castel Sant Angelo
⛪️ St Peters Basilica/Pantheon

First day in Rome in 8 years! Emma is studying her

First day in Rome in 8 years! Emma is studying here in this marvelous city and I am especially enjoying her showing me around (between her classes). My own personal tour guide! Tomorrow sadly is my last day and then back home but can’t leave without drinking all the wine, eating cannoli, gelato, cheese, and of course hoping to try the four essential pasta dishes Rome is most known for….while visiting every historical landmark (I haven’t yet in my life seen!)
🍝 Pizzeria Romano/Suppli are my faves
🛍️ Via Corronari, Campo Di Fiore
⛲️ @trevifountainofficial
⛪️ Pantheon
🏰 Castel Sant’Angelo
🏙️ Roman Forum

Paris. Ahhh…the city of light! What to do with

Paris. Ahhh…the city of light! What to do with your daughter when you only have only a weekend in Paris? It’s a big city filled with history, culture, and we were guided thru an action packed weekend highlighting the highly sought after fashion and of course savory + sweet foods!
So many rec’s and feel free to dm me-here are just a few!
🏨 @bel.ami.paris
🥐 @lecrepariecannettes creparie des cannettes (this was one of three we tried)
🌉 Pont des Arts (love lock bridge if you’re a fan of Sex in the City?)
✨ Girafe Paris (food) and best view of sparkling Eiffel Tower.
🥐 @maisonkayser
🥮 aux merveiilleux (favorite pastry i tried pillowy light and airy buttercream and meringue pastries) tres bon 👄!
🍷 Diva bar (casual and fun)
🧀 Marche saint Germaine
🎁 1830 Maison bremond
🌸 @dior gallery
🖼️ louvre/arc triumph
🛍️ @lebonmarcherivegauche and largest flea market in the 🌎 Les Puces ➡️ Les marveilles de babellou la mode (vintage couture)

Helpful hints: always and I mean ALWAYS say bonjour when entering a store, merci to try to fool the French (and make them think you’re not American) and au revoir when leaving, put google translate on your phone, speak softly, don’t spread your cheese on your bread (I know but it’s so soft) and don’t worry about not seeing the Mona Lisa…don’t we know what she looks like anyway? Oh and as for shopping….the clothes/shoes/bags are tres chic!!
“The air of Paris is really the air of couture” -Christian Dior

Must visits in Tuscany….. 🍷 @casaemmawinery

Must visits in Tuscany…..
🍷
@casaemmawinery @castellomonterinaldi
🏨 @lungarnocollection
👓 Accademia/Duomo/Santa Croce/Piazza Michelangelo/Santo Spirito/Ponte Vecchio
🍝 @mercatocentralefirenze @gustapizzafirenze @il_latini_firenze @allanticovinaiofirenze ☕️ @rivoirefirenze
🧳 @ic_bellagio

Spending my 50th in Tuscany with mi famiglia is a

Spending my 50th in Tuscany with mi famiglia is a dream come true. Tasting Chianti wines all day throughout the rolling hills of Tuscany I can now check off my bucket list. I am blessed.

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