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This was the biggest travel month I’ve had since we got back from our honeymoon! Shoulder season is always the best season for exploring and research, and March was the perfect time for a trip back to Italy.
Let’s take a look at March 2024!
Destinations Visited
- Prague, Křivoklát, and Beroun, Czech Republic
- Berlin, Germany
- Pisa, Florence, Siena, San Gimignano, Rome, and Tivoli, Italy
New Free Italy Guide
This month I released a brand new ebook: 23 Offbeat Places to Visit in Italy. One of my passions is helping travelers get off the beaten path in Italy, and discover lots of towns that don’t have the crazy crowds of Florence or Venice or Positano.
This book has mini-guides to 23 offbeat destinations in 17 regions of Italy, as well as information on traveling Italy and some of my favorite travel tips. And I love the “Go here, not there” section. You THINK you want the Amalfi Coast, but you ACTUALLY want Tropea!
You can sign up for it here, and it’s free! I hope it inspires you to travel more deeply in Italy!
Highlights
An awesome, super-fun return to Florence and Rome. I planned five days in Florence and six days in Rome to do a ton of research and photography so I can grow my Italy content in two of the most popular Italian destinations.
First off — it was March and both cities were SWAMPED with tourist crowds. There’s almost no off-season in Florence and Rome anymore, and you should know that before you book your trip!
Aside from that, it felt so good to do a long, in-depth, solo stay in Florence for the first time since my semester abroad, 20 years ago. I’ve been back to Florence a few times over the last two decades, but this was the first time I felt like I had the time and space to really see what Florence means to me now.
And I did EVERYTHING (except the Pitti Palace and the Galileo Museum). I climbed all the towers, visited tons of museums, and did a nice day trip to Siena and San Gimignano with Walks, which was comped.
Siena is somewhere I’ve visited before, but I’ve never been inside the church — but I went this time and I was BLOWN AWAY. A maximalist masterpiece filled with so…
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