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

December PenPalz: Modica, Sicily

December 31, 2021 0 Comments 0 tags

As if the beauty around Sicily isn’t enough to draw us to visit the little towns, the city of Modica is known for its chocolate and was definitely a stop that

November PenPalz: Paderborn, Germany

November 30, 2021 0 Comments 0 tags

In the 3 months we’ve lived in Europe, we’ve been fortunate to travel to Germany twice already with Pat’s work! In September we were in Bavaria, and this time we were further

October Penpalz: Taormina

November 3, 2021 0 Comments 0 tags

Taormina is such a beautiful town located about an hour north east of us. It sits right on the ocean, on a hill, overlooking the beautiful ocean. The town is