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As we roam the world unhurriedly on our grand  family adventure we hope to stay connected to family and friends and meet new friends along the way in person and thru the blog. Just like the song “this little light of mine”, we hope to let our light shine  and share it with others and each other as we learn and grow on this journey. We hope there will be something good for you here. Come join us!

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking So that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others.”
-- NELSON MANDELA 1994 INAUGURAL SPEECH

 

IMG_4018 Wow! Guggenheim Bilbao !!
June 24, 2008

Yes! This stunning titanium masterpiece
that is the world famous Museo
Guggenheim, absolutely lives up to

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IMG_3908 Basque Folk Dancing in Bilbao
June 23, 2008

One of the great delights of family travel,
is the spontaneous joyful moments that
seem to come out of

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IMG_0073_2 Happy Father's Day Traveling Dads!
June 21, 2009

This American holiday greets us on a
beautiful day in Barcelona and fills me
with thoughts of great gratitude.

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IMG_5948 Questions & Answers About Soultravelers3 Family Travel
June 9, 2009

"How do you travel the world and
what exactly does extended family
travel look like?"

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IMG_6989 Family Travel Photo-France
June 10, 2008

The spectacular Puy du Fou theme park
is one of the best family travel gems
in France with outstanding shows that 


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IMG_5335 6 Month European Family Road Trip '09!
June 3, 2009

"Get your motor running, head out on the
 highway, looking for adventure, whatever
comes our way!" The words & music to

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IMG_3986 Family Travel Photo - Sweden
May 26, 2009

Cooking reindeer meat over an open
fire in a Kota with friends in Sweden
makes a perfect family travel moment

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IMG_2328 Family Travel Photo- Germany
May 19, 2009

Have you traveled the Romantic Road
in Germany? Checkered with sunflowers,
castles, vineyards and multi-colored autumn

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IMG_6045 Biking St. Emilion & Bordeaux Vineyards in France
May 12, 2009

A stunning area of France, filled
with surprises, we thoroughly enjoyed
our time in Bordeaux, the wine capital

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IMG_4863 How To Be a World Traveling Fashionista!
May 6, 2009

What is the secret to having
fabulous style while vacationing
around the world with your

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594588 Family Travel Photo- Denmark
April 29, 2009

Family travel in Copenhagen,
Denmark means not missing
world famous Tivoli Gardens, the

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Img_9602 Family Travel Photo-Happy Earth Day!
April 22, 2009

In honor of Earth Day, I thought this
nature collage that Mozart did
spontaneously while playing in

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IMG_4601 Semana Santa Easter in Andalusia
April 15, 2009

Hot sun, cool shade, blue sky, ancient
white stucco, patterned cobbled streets,
sweat upon a "costelero's" brow,

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IMG_2556 Soultravelers3 Won 2 Lonely Planet Travel Awards!!Thank YOU!
April 7, 2009

For those who haven't heard, we just won
TWO Lonely Planet Travel Awards and want
to thank all of you for your support and votes.

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How To Travel The World as a 
Digital Nomad Family

April 1, 2009

Recently we were featured on  Dell's
Digital Nomad site discussing how we
do our extended international travel as

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Marne outside multiple 2008small Castle Marne-#1 B&B In Denver!
March 21, 2009

If you ever go to Denver, this is the
place to stay! With all that we have
seen on our world tour, who knew that

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2280204491_9bfca2eda4 Heavenly Month In Santorini
March 23, 2009

We spent over a month on beautiful
Santorini in Greece and had it all to
ourselves in June. It's unique and

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IMG_2717 Family Travel Photo- Norway!
March 6th, 2009

After a sauna and the most scrumptious
organic breakfast, which we savored
leisurely while taking in the awe-inspiring

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IMG_0330 3 Lonely Planet Nominations!
February 25, 2009

We are jumping for joy here in Spain!
Yep, that's  Mozart at our local playground
in our 15th century village. Thanks to our

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IMG_5526 Family Travel Photo- Sweden!
February 18th, 2009

On a warm, sunny summer day, we
donned fur-lined, futuristic parka-capes
and entered an air locked chamber that

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GetAttachment-1 Our Chocolate Valentine in Koeln!
February 12, 2009

Mmmm!  The delicious chocolate fragrance
greeted us as we enter the door of this
impressive neo-eclectic structure on the

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IMG_3816 Twitter & Travel 2.0
February 10, 2009

Some of you probably do not even know
what Travel 2.0 or Twitter is. I don't think I
would know about them if it was not for our

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IMG_9703 Family Travel Photo-England
February 4, 2009

Mozart had a brilliant time swimming
and splashing with the swans on this
beautiful canal where we would take a boat ride

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IMG_3199 Route des Vins d' Alsace
January 28, 2009

This is the first video in our Soultravelers3 series about touring great wine regions of the world! This past fall of 2008, we were in Colmar, France

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IMG_0755 Family Travel Photo-Spain
January 21, 2009

In a tiny 15th century village in Spain where
Jews, Muslims and Christians lived side
by side in peace for 800 years, our 8 year

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Alsace, France, family travel, wine, Route du Vin,soultravelers3 Family Travel Photo-France
January 16, 2009

The blazing autumn colors of the
Alsace region of France were such
a delight this past fall and thankfully

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IMG_1604 Family Travel Photo-Germany
January 13, 2009

We are starting a new category today,
so settle back in a comfy spot and
come along for a little armchair travel!

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IMG_0673Reflecting On Our Family Travel
January 7, 2009

May your year be filled with blessings!
I find this a reflective time of year and
wanted to thank all of our readers

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Img_4069Santa's Coming! Gift Ideas!
December 17, 2008

Yikes! Christmas is a week a way and if
you are like us, you have not even started
shopping yet! No worries, there is plenty of

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Img_4001 Grace & Gratitude Near Granada
December 16, 2008

Blue sparkling sea, rolling green hills
dotted with sugar cube, white houses,
snow capped mountains jutting high above

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Img_6766_2 OMG! Best Travel Blog!
December 2, 2008

I am stunned! Out of a small, select list
of tip top, corporate and multi-authored
travel websites, who are all leaders in

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Img_3955_2 I Have Not Forgotten You!
December 1, 2008

This is just a quick post to let you know
that we are all well and happily back into
our winter home in Andalusia, Spain!

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Img_1323 Altamira: Sistine Chapel of Prehistoric Art!
November 11, 2008

How many people, let alone home
school kids, get to visit both Altamira
and Lascaux prehistoric caves to have

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Img_3504 More Santillana Del Mar
November 1, 2008

It is soon obvious why this entire town
is a national monument, where not a
stone can be moved. It is the perfect

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Img_5244_3 The Traveling Office!
November 5, 2008

Sometimes glorious like at a beach or
pool and sometimes hardy, like perched
on a door ledge on a busy street, but a

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Img_1299 Sublime Santillana Del Mar
October 16, 2008

You never know when you hear high
praise for a place, whether it will
meet your expectations or if your

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Img_3295 Lucky Luarca, Austrias?
October 7, 2008

It is a good thing Luarca, Spain was
gorgeous, because getting there was
a nightmare! Perhaps we stayed a

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Img_3151_4 Cedeira's Scrumptious Crustaceans
October 4, 2008

We headed to the coast of death,
("Costa de la Muerte") as we drove
westward in our RV towards the

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Img_2915 Finistere: The End of Earth?
October 2, 2008

Right before we left southern Southern
Spain last May, our good friends there
told us to make sure that we saw


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Img_2556 Lace & Pottery in Galicia
October 1, 2008

His experienced hands, covered in
oozing clay, turned the glob of earth
into a beautiful cup effortlessly, as

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Img_3047_2 More Galician Beauty!
September 23, 2008

Imagine our delight as we rounded
a high mountain pass over looking a
magnificent bay below, where

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Img_2973_2 Beautiful Beaches & Boats
September 23, 2008

Galicia often looks more like
Scandinavia or Scotland than Spain
and some of the beaches reminded

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Img_2717_2 Gorgeous Galicia, Secret Gem!
September 19, 2008

Galicia is much more than just Santiago
de Compostela and it really blew our
minds, as it is one of the most spectacularly

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Picture_1 Forget About Palin & Obama....Vote for ME!
September 12, 2008

The good news is we have been
nominated for a "Love This Site"
award at Divine Caroline!

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Img_2310 Tunas Tradition Tonight?
Sept 12, 2008

The joy of the colorful Tunas  singers
filled the air! This was one of the things
we really wanted to see in Santiago and

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Img_5631 How To Eat Healthy & Cheap Traveling Europe!
September 12, 2008

We have found it quite easy to eat
delicious, nutritious food on a very
tight budget as we travel Europe. We

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Img_2457 Pint-sized Pilgrim's Joy In Learning
September 9, 2008

How do you teach a child about
Santiago de Compostela and the
famous pilgrimage that people have

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Img_1088_2 Sanctuary & Rest
August 30, 2008

What we really needed was rest
because our pace has been too
fast this year and Santiago was the


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Img_3040_3 Power Surge in Galicia!
August 29, 2008

There is more to Galicia than just
Santiago! We found Galicia to be one
of the most pristine and spectacular

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Img_2221_4 Discover Stunning Santiago!
August 26, 2008

Internationally bestselling author Paulo
Coelho said: "My turning point was my
pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela


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Img_1873 Viana do Castelo & Vigo
August 19, 2008

Despite our problematic entry and it
being dark, we could still see that Viana
do Castela in northern Portugal was a

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Img_1869 Crazy Travel Challenges
August 11, 2008

Travel and the open road is an adventure
and things do not always go right, but
sometimes the challenges make for the

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Img_1719 Oporto & Douro Valley
August 11, 2008

The rain poured so hard the day that
we went to tour Oporto, that our rain
coats were soaked through before

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Img_1438 Alcobaca Monastery
August 4, 2008

The largest Cathedral in Portugal is in
Alcobaca, so we made the journey to
see it and had a delightful backpack lunch

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Img_1281 Nazare, Not Our Cup Of Tea
August 3, 2008

Nazare is a very touristy beach town,
so my least favorite site in Portugal
and I could have skipped it entirely. Still

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Img_1166_2 Oooh, Obidos!
August 1, 2008

This is such a darling little town that
makes you want to just "oooh" and
"ahhh" every few seconds at the visual

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Img_0794 Kindness of Strangers
July 31, 2008

One of the great things about being a
traveler is the many opportunities one
gets to see the kindness of strangers.

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Img_1065_3 Cabo de Roca
July 31, 2008

Mozart was thrilled to get an official
sealed certificate from Cabo de Roca,
Portugal the furthest western point in

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Img_0703 Monserrate Palace
July 31, 2008

The beautiful grounds is what really
touched us at Monserrate, plus the
outside was in one of my favorite

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Img_0281 Pena Palace
July 31, 2008

Out of all the palaces that we have
been to, I think Pena Palace is my
favorite. The architecture there just

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Picture_1_4 More Youtube Videos Up
July 8, 2008

We thought we would share some
exciting new videos that we are
proud to finally have up on

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Img_0463_3 Toy Museum
July 22, 2008

Meeting the sweet owner and collector in
this very special toy museum, called Museu
do Brinquedo, was a real treat! There were

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Img_0178_2 Scintillating Sintra
July 22, 2008

We just fell in love with Sintra as
so many before us have, like
Portuguese kings and English

 

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Img_9917 Explorers & Maritime Museum
July 17, 2008

Looking at a world map, it is simply
amazing that a small country the size
of Florida made so many significant

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Img_0690 New Cameras
July 17, 2008

As many of you know, I managed to
break our good camera... that we had
just bought for the trip... only three days

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Img_0069 Beautiful Belem
July 15, 2008

Belem is next to the sea and jam packed
with many of the most important sites in
Lisbon, so we made a beeline there on our

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Img_1008 Portuguese Day & Belem Pastries
July 14, 2008

It just worked out by coincidence that
we were in Lisbon, mostly the Belem
area on June 10th which is a major

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Img_9952 Luscious Lisbon
July 10, 2008

Lisbon was a surprise and prettier than
expected, as somehow I had not realized
that it is one of those cities where

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Img_0987_3 Mobile Mozart Art Gallery
July 10, 2008

Road schooling has some unique challenges,
but for the most part we all really enjoy it.
Mozart is forever self- initiating and making

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Img_0956 Work,Youtube & Play At Lisbon Beach
July 1, 2008

Before heading to Lisbon from Evora, we
had checked our email at that sweet new
cafe and were very puzzled because we had

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Img_9678 Book Fair,Wifi & Bone Chapel
July 1, 2008

When it comes to family travel, there is
nothing kids like better than fun activities
and gruesome sights and Evora had both to

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Img_1028 Evocative Evora
July 1, 2008

Shockingly, it cost us almost 36 euros
for the toll rode from the Algarve to
Evora, the highest price for a toll road

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Img_0970_2 Sagres & Henry The Navigator
June 30, 2008

Henry the Navigator built his school for
navigation on these steep windswept
cliffs to train the explorers that later

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Img_0854 Cabo De Sao Vicente
June 30, 2008

Cape Vincent in Portugal's Algarve is
the furthest southwestern most point in
Europe with a solitary lighthouse and dramatic

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Img_0711_3 Sunny Salema

June 23, 2008

We could walk into Salema from our
lovely naturists' campsite, although it
was slightly nerve wracking because it

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Img_0322 Beauty & Nakedness
June 23, 2008

We wanted to skip the over-built  part of
the Algarve as it is not our cup of tea, just
as we avoid the similar over built up parts

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Img_0375 More Portugal Colors
June 22, 2008

Our eyes have feasted on the many
delights of Portugal and we have had
great fun with our new cameras

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Img_0488 Colors of Portugal
June 22, 2008

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words!

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Img_0228 Tennis Anyone?
June 22, 2008

We found a great tennis teacher at this
Campsite in Olhao, Portugal (at only
five euros for an hour), so we decided it

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Img_0874 Celebrating In Nature
June 17, 2008

DaVinci's birthday was simple this year with
the highlight being a bike ride to a nearby nature
preserve and just enjoying time with family.

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Officesmall_3How To Do Extended Travel & Mini-retirements
June 4,  2008

Extended travel is really a fabulous way to go
and it seems more and more people are looking
at this option and we want to be able to help others

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Img_0255_7 Arriving In Algarve
June7, 2008

How exciting it is to pass the border and
enter a new country! Mozart always whoops
and hollers!  It is even more exciting than

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Img_0793 El Puerto de Santa Maria
June 5, 2008

After a big shopping spree in Marbella,
primarily for new cameras, tennis rackets,
food and supplies, we headed west towards Cadiz

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Img_0663 Malaga & Marbella '08
June 3, 2008

We did not know that May 15th was a
major holiday in Spain when we planned
the start of our European '08  Odyssey.

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Img_5306 Dentists & Travel
May 30,  2008

Many people think a medical or dental problem
abroad would be a nightmare, but it does not have
to be that way. No one wants these things to happen

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Img_0144 Top 10 Family Travel Tips
May 27, 2008

People are always asking about our top tips
for family travel, so I thought I would put this
list together about the top ten things that we

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Img_0187 R&R on the Road
May 25, 2008

We just love this life on the road! You would think we would get tired of our little movable home, but we were all


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Img_0597 Jerez Horse Fair First!
May 16, 2008

The unique romantic image of bright
colored, flouncy ruffled, multi-tiered-dressed
beautiful women with high heels and  flowers

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Img_7575 Catching Capri
April 28, 2008

They say it is one of the most beautiful
islands in the world and it has a lot of
glamour attached to its name,

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Img_9608_4 Spring in Spain!
April 20, 2008

This is the view that I see out my kitchen
and living room window and it never fails
to make me smile.

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Img_9003 Getting Geeky, Alltop & Changes
April 14, 2008

Can you believe Guy Kawasaki at Alltop
picked Soultravelers3 as one of the
top travel sites in cyberspace?

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Img_7192_3Pompeii...Buried Alive!
April 2, 2008

Mozart has always been fascinated by Pompeii
since she read a book about it several years ago
with that exact title, “Pompeii....Buried Alive!”

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Img_6936 Bavagna Cheese, Please
April 1, 2008

Is it really the best cheese in the world as
some say? I am not sure about that, as we
had a spectacular cheese in Amsterdam

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Img_6710_2Ahhh...Umbria!
March 30, 2008

How many Californians have lived thirty nine
years in Umbria? I doubt if there are very many,
but I was lucky enough to meet a very

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Where Is Pinocchio?
March 28, 2008

It is a little funky, a little fifties, fun for a
kid and full-out-Italian, so as a traveling
family with a seven year old

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Img_6457 Pisa & That Famous Tower
March 13, 2007

Traveling kids like name brand sites because
they hear and read so much about them,
so for that reason alone, we had to put Pisa

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Img_5634 Kid's View Of Florence!
March 11, 2008

Florence can be a fascinating place for
kids and it is a great city for walking
around amongst great art.

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Img_5854 More Fabulous Florence
March 10, 2008

Oh, how can one describe the glories of
Florence on a sunny day in late October
when all the crowds are gone?

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Armonia Make-Overs!
Monday, February 22, 2008

If you ever need your hair done in Florence,
we know the place to go! Armonia is a large
salon right next to the main square in Florence,

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Boboli Gardens
February 19, 2008

On a beautiful sunny day, we took in more
of Florence as we leisurely crossed the
famous Ponte Vecchio 

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