This trip to Italy, let’s just say, came with its share of adventures, and not all of them were the kind I’d happily repeat. On my first trip without my husband and kids, a getaway I had carefully planned to share with a close girlfriend, I never imagined that a throat infection would land me in the hospital just days into the trip. By the time I was discharged, my girlfriend had left town, and what began as a girls’ trip unexpectedly turned into a solo adventure. And that’s when I learned a…