I enjoy fresh vegetables. I have a weimaraner dog. I go to church on Sundays. I wouldn't like to live in Europe. My favorite place to visit is Australia. I travel with my family. I enjoy walking outdoors. I would love to take my family to Italy. We love Italian food. I was raised around water but love to be on land. I am learning more about gardening and the outdoors.
I can cook Paella. I enjoy fresh vegetables, Fish and Chips. I haven't been to Australia. I enjoy sailing. I was raised around water. I am related to Columbus. My favorite European country to visit is Italy. I hope to go to Europe again this summer. I might visit Italy again and a few surrounding countries. It has been a year or two since I was last in Italy. I am studying different kinds of art at college. I have a year left until I graduate. I don't plan to be a professor.
Have you booked any of your trip to Europe yet? Not yet but I've been researching places to go in Switzerland and Austria as I love the Alps and it'll be close to get across to Italy. Have you been to Austria or Switzerland before? No I haven't but I would love to travel to Switzerland.  I've heard it's a beautiful country.  I hope to travel to Italy and Switzerland one day. Yes I've heard it's beautiful too. I think I'll have to brush up on some Italian before I make the trip, as I haven't learnt any since I was in high school! I think we had to learn some French too, but I can't remember most of it now. Do you speak any other languages aside from English? I took Spanish in high school and then traveled to a few Spanish-speaking countries to practice, so I used to be quite good at Spanish, but I haven't used it recently.  I'll definitely need a refresher.  Have you heard of DuoLingo? That app helps you to learn languages. Oh that's great that you were able to practice in Spanish-speaking countries; I've heard that the best way to learn is to immerse yourself in the culture! Yes I have heard of Duolingo though I haven't used it before. Do you know if it is free? I used it years ago and it was free.  And yes, traveling definitely helped with my Spanish, but I may use the app as a refresher before I travel to Italy.  Any recommendations of things to do while in Italy if I bring my family there one day? Great, well I'll definitely look into Duolingo then. And as there's an app it'll be useful to do on my phone when I get a free moment! In terms of where to go in Italy, I'd recommend the area in the north around Lake Garda as it's just beautiful and there are lots of towns to visit. Tuscany is also lovely with all its rolling hills and vineyards. If your family is into art then Florence is good choice too! Thanks for all of those recommendations - that's really helpful!  I enjoy art, but my kids sometimes get bored by it.  What type of art are you most interested in?  I enjoy nature photography and painting. Ha yes I can imagine that the kids might get bored in art galleries! I also enjoy nature photography, and portrait photography too. I'm not very good at painting though! What type of painting do you do (e.g watercolor, acrylic etc)? I like oil painting the most, but I tend to use acrylics more often because the smell of the turpentine needed to get oil paint out of the brushes is really nasty! I don't want to use such a harsh chemical around the kids. I hadn't thought about how hard it must be to get oil paint out of a paintbrush, I can understand why you don't want to always have to get out the turpentine! What type of thing to you like to paint?