Tulip time in the Netherlands
Finally, we traveled to the Netherlands, AKA Holland! Even though the country is rather small and doesn’t take more than a couple of hours to drive from one end to the other we still...
Category: Europe
The Art of Florence
Florence is the capital of Italy’s Tuscany region and contains beautiful architecture and masterpieces that will make the top of any art major’s to-see list. Florence is the home of Michelangelo’s David, the birthplace of...
The colorful villages of Cinque Terre
Cinque Terre, which means 5 lands, consists of the 5 coastal villages: Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso that line the Mediterranean on the Italian region of Liguria. I remember putting together a puzzle of...
Speeding through Monaco and Nice
We’d first rented a car in Milan a week ago where we took it on a test drive to Switzerland and then Lichtenstein. It was time to say “sayonara Milan” and hit the road...
Milan Darling
According to CNN, Milan has the most important fashion district in the World so naturally we didn’t care much for it. However, in addition to visiting the fashionistas we also used Milan as a base...
Little Liechtenstein
I’ll admit that our main objective for going to Liechtenstein was just so we could have another country added to our list. Make fun if you want, but it’s become some sort of personal...
Switzerland and the Matterhorn
While we’ve been backpacking in Europe we’ve danced around Switzerland, never sure how we could manage an affordable stay there. We decided on just driving to Switzerland for a day visiting the Swiss Alps,...
Spain part dos
Spain is such a fun country to travel to, and rich with culture! We loved our time in Madrid and Barcelona, but wanted to visit more. After 5 months since our last visit we...
Hiking the Rock of Gibraltar
We had just gotten in from Morocco to Southern Spain the night before, but knew we had to climb the giant Rock of Gibraltar. We’d seen the Rock easily from the ferry, but it...
Wales: Castles 101
We were excited for the chance to explore Wales, but since we’d just had a week long road trip through Portugal we weren’t too excited to be back in a car again. Granted this...
