A huge part of traveling is seeing things you wouldn’t normally see wherever it is you live. I’m a big sucker for flowers & exotic-looking plants, so my eyes – and camera lens – tend to gravitate towards the ground in search of interesting-looking things. When we were hiking along the well-known path connecting the […]
Villa Carlotta & Botanical Gardens – Lake Como, Italy
If you’ve been to Villa del Balbianello, you don’t have to worry that a visit to Villa Carlotta will be too similar. I don’t know exactly what characterizes a “villa” but they’re vastly different. While Villa del Balbianello is more rustic Italian in feel, with its warm earth-tone colors, Villa Carlotta reminds me more of something […]