Winter Break in the Province of Quebec

When I was 8 years old, my parents took me to Italy over Christmas break, and I was miserable.

I had a wishlist of Transformers, G.I.Joes, and Thundercats, but Babbo Natale was not going to be able to translate this for me.

Decades later, I am now faced with a similar trip — a return to my maternal grandparents’ hometown in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, along with various stops in northern Tuscany, Rome, and Pompeii.

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