Snapshots of Italia

I was lucky enough to spend almost all of July in the most incredible country in the world. Italy! I went to Rome and Tuscany for school and after that finished up, Bry and his family joined me for a couple more weeks of lugging our suitcases around pretty much everywhere.

We may have overdone it a little, but it was without a doubt the trip of a lifetime. I miss it and I want to go back...tomorrow.

I brought my bulky camera and took over a thousand pictures (literally), so I wasn't sure how to tackle this post. I decided to pick out twenty of my most favorite photos. That didn't work. So here are twenty-six, in no particular order...

-Evening music on San Marco Square in Venice-

-The obligatory gondola picture-

-Pizza, pizza, and more mouthwatering pizza (this one has squash blossoms)-

-The famous Trevi Fountain. They say if you toss a coin over you're shoulder, you'll come back to Rome. I made sure to throw in a coin-

-Hiking around Procida Island-

-Corricella Harbor on Procida, one of the most beautiful evenings of my life-

-Poppy saying "ooh," her new favorite sound, while waiting for our ferry-

-The La Casa Sul Mare hotel on Procida...our room had a fairly decent view-

-City streets in Siena-

-Procida Island. I was in love-

-A sleepy little girl in Tuscany-

-Families take trips together for moments like these-

-Dear Tuscany, how I miss you-

-Piazzale Michelangelo, overlooking beautiful Florence-

-I love carousels. Especially in Florence-

-Bagno Vignoni: an incredible hot spring mineral pool in Tuscany where I caught this delightfully vintage expression from Poppy-

-The canals of Venice...magical after dark-

-Journaling for class in my favorite little place in the woods-

-The massive oak tree and the well outside our house, Il Leccio, on the farm in Tuscany-

-A tribute to the best espresso I've ever had-

-The Vatican-

-Cooking class in Tuscany at Spannocchia, the farm where I stayed for school-

-The Campo in Siena (very darling town) where the famous Palio horse race took place a few days before-

-Pasta and wine: two things that Italy does very, very well-

-In a cathedral in Rome-

-The Coliseum in the morning...not much needs to be said about this-

And just to prove that I actually did schoolwork while I was there...a picture of one of our classrooms: