October PenPalz: Ortigia & Syracusa, Sicily

October 12, 2022 0 Comments 0 tags

Talk about beautiful… the city of Ortigia, an island off of Syracusa, is one of the most beautiful cities on Sicily, second to Taormina. You know it’s gotta be beautiful if Dolce

September PenPalz: Savoca, Sicily

September 28, 2022 0 Comments 0 tags

Ciao PenPalz! After recovering from our busy, fun-filled summer, and settling into the new school routine, we stayed mostly local this month. A few random day trips, and then one

August PenPalz: Ireland

August 10, 2022 0 Comments 0 tags

Ireland was truly one of our bucket-list destinations, and has been for our entire lives. Being able to travel there together as a family, with my mom, made it so

July PenPalz: Caltagirone, Sicily

July 22, 2022 0 Comments 0 tags

Ciao PenPalz! This month we have been staying local, saving up our energy and strength for our BIG trip next month! My mom is in town, and we were so

June PenPalz: Normandy, France

June 22, 2022 0 Comments 0 tags

Talk about a bucket-list destination…. Patrick is one of the biggest WWII buffs there is. For the 78th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, Patrick, his dad and brother (who are

May PenPalz: Istanbul Turkey

May 8, 2022 0 Comments 0 tags

Istanbul, Turkey was kind of a random, last minute place we were fortunate to be able to visit! With Pat’s job, he travels a lot. This month he was asked

April PenPalz: Trapani, Sicily

April 18, 2022 0 Comments 0 tags

Spring break this year only got me more excited for summer vacation. I don’t know when else I will get to say, we spent the summer galavanting around Sicily! While

March PenPalz: Venice, Italy

March 25, 2022 0 Comments 0 tags

Venice was…. Magical. Dreamy. Surreal.  We were actually only there for a day… and it might have been our favorite day trip yet.  We started in Ferrara, Italy, a smaller

February PenPalz: Seville, Spain!

February 21, 2022 0 Comments 0 tags

Hola, PenPalz! Seville turned out to be the bucket-list destination we didn’t know was on our bucket-list. It was such an incredible city. While we were only there for 3

January PenPalz: Garmisch-Partenkirchen & Zugspitze Germany

January 17, 2022 0 Comments 0 tags

This was our third time visiting Germany as a family since we moved to Sicily and it will not be our last! We loved our stay in Oberammergau where we visited the famous