On the night we arrived in San Diego we threw a little bachlorette party for the bride, heading downtown to eat dinner, and ending up at a cupcake bar called Babycakes. I don’t call it a cupcake bar because of the variety (though it does have something like a dozen delicious choices), but because it’s [...]

Right now I’m in the middle of planning our Thailand trip set for this September (is this seriously real life?) and while researching a place to stay I find myself repeating in my mind “I want La Torre, I just want to stay in La Torre again.” I don’t know if a La Torre experience exists [...]

On the day we arrived in Florence we actually dropped our stuff off at the hotel and immediately took a train to Pisa. I had planned to do things a bit differently, but once we were on the ground in the area this is what made the most sense to us and so we went [...]

By the time we got to Florence, I was really starting to doubt my ability to research and find places we enjoyed eating. Our dinner that night as at yet another place that the message boards on Chowhound raved about, Trattoria I due G. Let me paste my notes in directly so you can see the [...]

The Hotel Ambasciatori was our splurge hotel. It not only has fabulous decor (kind of like an Italian take on the W hotel chain), but it’s located right across from the train station. As in, we walked out the door, crossed the street, and walked directly into the station. I didn’t find it to be [...]