Oh, Italy. Just hearing the name of that boot-shaped country makes me long for rolling hills with fragrant flowers, Bernini sculptures and Michelangelo frescoes, and the snippets of “prego” and “grazie” heard at every wonderfully quaint caffeteria.

My family took a trip to Italy this June, all eight of us packed in a minibus way too big for any Italian cobblestone street. From Florence to Venice to Tuscany to Rome, we got a taste of four ways to live the life of an Italian.

So, here’s a peek into Italia. Hope you adore the carefree, romantic, delicious Italian way of living as much as I do.

Firenze

Venezia

Toscana

Roma

La Cucina Italiana

Don’t want to say arrivederci to Italia quite yet? Read more on our trip here.