Tiana Kai

Last year Nicco and I spent Christmas and New Year’s in the Alps—Sestriere, Piedmont, which borders France. We had just started dating again, so I flew in from Boulder, Colorado…

Besides bringing my snowboard (with a gold grill on the bottom, oh ya) to the Alps this New Years, I also brought my Moon Boots! That’s right, hard to believe.…

We just made it back to the Alps for New Year’s. It’s so great to be back. The air is crisp and the sky is so clear up here. This…

I absolutely love pumpkin. My Mom would make an amazing soup with pumpkin, onion, spinach beans and rice… so yummy! When I make it myself I trade the rice for…

I always found it so weird that growing up my Mom and Dad never wanted anything for Christmas or even their Birthdays. This seemed to just be another reason to…

WARNING: this post is filled with naughty words. After being in a country long enough you start to notice weird phrases that don’t seem to make much sense. Each culture…

On December 8th the Mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, lit up the downtown christmas tree in Piazza del Duomo. The tree sits between the church and the baptistry. The best…

Winter is here and it actually snowed in Florence today… well we had a few hours of light flurries, but I’ll take what I can get! Abetone, the Tuscan mountain…

You can tell that you’ve reached Verona once you’ve walked through the city arches and spot the Arena di Verona to your right. This was my third trip here and…