Grand European Tour

Let’s start at the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum Fairfield. The collection moves you to reflect on the potato blight that devastated Ireland from 1845 to 1852, resulting in the deaths of a million and the emigration of 2 million more, largely due to British government indifference. The story is told through sculpture and paintings, from 19th-century through contemporary works, and it’s an eye-opener/consciousness raiser.

By now you’re no doubt feeling hunger pangs, and fortunately, you’re not far from famed Wooster Street, New Haven’s Little Italy. You can’t go wrong here, whether it’s pizza at Pepe’s, Sally’s or Abate’s, or white-tablecloth fare at Consiglio’s or Tre Scalini. Wherever you dine, the street invites walking around, so once you’re done, walk around . . . then indulge in a lemon ice at Libby’s.