The few things that we reserved tickets for in advance for our Italy trips were Vatican City, the Colosseum and the Roman Forum, and the Accademia Gallery in Florence. We read about the long lines to get into each one…
Pompeii – A Day Trip from Naples
This is really embarrassing, but I didn’t even know the story of Pompeii until we started planning our trip to Italy. But once I found out what Pompeii is, I really wanted to make it over there. Since we…
Naples Underground Tour
On our second day in Naples we decided to take the Naples Underground tour (Napoli Sotterranea). The Napoli Sotterranea entrance was right in the center of the old Spaccanopoli neighborhood, to the left of the amazing Basilica di San Paolo Maggiori,…
Conímbriga Roman Ruins – A Day Trip from Coimbra, Portugal
We took a half day trip from Coimbra to go to the Conímbriga Ruins. I was not prepared to be so fascinated by the ruins – I was thinking “so what, we’re gonna see a bunch of old stones.” But when we…
A Stroll Through Coimbra, Portugal
Coimbra was pretty awesome, in a totally different way than any other city I’ve been to before. I’m not even sure how we chose to go to Coimbra – we knew we wanted to go to Porto and were…