July Family Vacation

Cinque Terra Family Vacation italy Photo by Debbie Markham

Our family vacation took us to Italy this summer!  It was amazing, we went from north to south, visiting: Venice, Florence, Pisa, Cinque Terra, four different hill-top towns in Umbria and Tuscany, and Rome.  The simple lifestyle was refreshing – there weren’t as many types of milk or vegetables, but rather one size of pizza country-wide, 2 types of milk – whole or 1%, mainly five vegetables (zucchini, eggplant, onions, tomato and red pepper) and very little beer.  Wine, arugula, tomatoes, zucchini, mushrooms, olives abounded and fresh white crusty bread.  I could live here…