Madrid was definitely one of the best large cities we visited last year, and for all of the reasons you would expect—the food was spectacular, the people were immensely pleasant, the vibe was always a perfect combination of lax and on (our hotel had a bowling alley and a club with a stripper pole in…
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I’ll begin this post by noting that I am a Texan who doesn’t speak Spanish. To be fair, I took 5 years of German through high school, so I didn’t skip a foreign language completely. I do wish that I had taken some time to learn more than a few Spanish words before our trip,…
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In 2011, Neil and I met through an online dating website (in the days before apps on our phone were really a thing). Little did I know then, that I was meeting the man I would one day marry and get to join in with travel to some really obscure places. Our journey to the…
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Let’s just get the housekeeping out of the way and answer the question we know everyone has. When we decided to go to Spain for Tomatina, we knew we were going to be close to Gibraltar, so taking a day to visit the tiny autonomous territory of the UK was an easy decision. Many people…
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Neil and I have been traveling for years and neither one of us had even been to England before 2019. Hear me out here: London was never a place that I really had any interest in seeing. I got to travel to Europe a bit as a kid and with all the other countries I…
View MoreIt’s historic, it’s tasty, and it’s walkable. Rome is the largest city in Italy, populated with almost 3 million people. You’d never know this without checking the internet. We walked 30 miles of Rome in two days and it never felt crowded, outside of the main tourist sites like the Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, Vatican City…
View MoreFor us, there wasn’t a question when it came to which part of Capri we were going to spend our time. Since I had some pretty vivid memories of my trip to the isle 17 years ago, Anacapri was where I wanted to take Neil. However, if you aren’t sure which part of the island…
View MoreYou may have heard the term “long haul flight,” but what does that mean? What’s a “long” haul? Many common carriers (airlines) consider long haul to be at least 2500-3000 nautical miles. Los Angeles to New York is about 2450 nautical miles. This means there are only a few domestic flights for Americans that are…
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