This itinerary covered a three-week trip to mostly Central and Northern Italy. Julie and I traveled alone on this trip since we thought Tahia was too little to deal with the inevitable cigarette smoke as well as the additional logistics involved when you bring a third person along…

Once we got all settled on the plane, it turned out that I was sitting next to this rather tall, but older Italian guy who got the unfortunate window seat. It was unfortunate because the seat…