Romantic Weekend Getaway in Porto
Over the last four years, on October 11th, we have found ourselves in Portugal for our wedding anniversary. We rarely remember in time to spend a lot of effort planning, […]
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Day Tripping from Lisbon: The Beaches of Cascais
Cascais (pronounced Kush-Ki-sssh, with a ki like ky in Kylie Minogue), the beachy ‘burbs of Lisbon, is only a scenic 30 minute train ride from city center. We live in between, […]
Lisbon: Beauty abound in the gritty city
Lisbon has my heart like few other cities, and it’s not for everybody. It’s the beauty within the grit of decaying old world power. It is dirty. And artsy. It is sexy. It is real, […]
Swing dancing and sangria: Barcelona
So this is a seriously delayed post…like 6 months delayed. I figure, you don’t know the difference, and it’s not worth sacrificing the myriad of exciting adventures to manage some artificial time line and […]
Locals guide to Antibes
I’d been fantasizing about staying in Antibes since my European backpacking trip with my girlfriends when we made a day trip by train from Nice. This visit lived up to […]
5 Best Things about Cinque Terre
In no particular order other than this is how they came to me… # 1 Manarola Hands down our favorite town in Cinque Terre. Vernazza is nice, but touristy and […]
When In Rome!
We almost didn’t go to Rome. I wanted more time in the riviera and had been to Rome when I backpacked with my girlfriends in college. But then we decided […]
7 gluttonous days in Tuscany
The Italian leg of our EU road trip consisted of Lake Garda, Tuscany, Rome and Cinque Terre as we made our way back to Antibes. After leaving Lake Garda we […]
Romantic Weekend in Lake Garda
We arrived in Lake Garda just in time to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary on October 11th. Due to our warped sense of time we would have completely missed it […]
Swiss-Shit-Slinger and other discoveries
With winter nipping at our heels, we left Chamonix after two fabulous nights and crossed the border into Switzerland. First stop was Grindelwald. I’d been 20 years ago (gasp!) that […]
Zooming Way Out 