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I took another solo trip for almost two weeks. I never used to imagine that I could travel alone, that I could muster up the courage and confidence and trust in myself to do so, yet here I am. BERLIN I've wanted to visit Germany for a while, since my dad's family was originally from there. Specifically, what was once Prussia. So I thought hey, why not go to Berlin for a few days? I'd heard great things about the city. Those great things were true. It is very different from mo

A couple weekends ago I did my very first solo trip--unless, of course, you count the whole moving to Italy all by myself thing. Milan was one of the places I didn't get to during my time studying abroad here. Seeing The Last Supper is practically mandatory if you're an art historian in Italy, and I also wanted to see "Dentro Caravaggio," an exhibit on the painter in Palazzo Reale--with one of the pieces on display being John the Baptist (John in the Wilderness) from the Nels