Tag: travels

  • POMPEII

    POMPEII

    We arrived from our sleeper train at about 6 am in Naples. We just hung out at the train station and got breakfast and waited for our tour bus to come get us. We signed up for a tour of Pompeii and Mt. Vesuvius. We figured there would be a lot of history so the…

  • PISA

    PISA

    Like I mentioned in my previous post, we hadn’t planned on visiting the Leaning Tower of Pisa but realized we were only about an hour away. We jumped on a train from La Spezia to Pisa to spend a few hours there. We saw this mountain range while on the train to Pisa. We were…

  • CINQUE TERRE

    CINQUE TERRE

    I was most excited to visit Cinque Terre (pronounced cheen-kwey ter-hree). It’s a series of five villages along the cliffs of the Mediterranean Sea. We took the train from Parma through the mountains and countryside of central Italy. We arrived in La Spezia, in the mid morning. We left our big backpack at the train…

  • MURANO/BURANO

    MURANO/BURANO

    While in Venice, we visited some of the nearby islands in the Venetian Lagoon. Like I mentioned earlier, our hotel ordered us a free private water taxi to Murano. Having our own boat was pretty awesome. It was about a 20 minute ride to Murano. You can also take a normal water taxi to the…

  • VENEZIA

    VENEZIA

    Venice, oh, Venice! I feel like I had a love/hate relationship with Venice-okay for the first two or so hours of being there it wasn’t awesome, but then I loved it after that. It was one of the most beautiful and interesting places I had ever been, and also the most tricky to navigate. We…

  • ROMA PT II

    ROMA PT II

    We only had two days in Rome, so we had to cram a lot in. After Vatican City, we went to the Pantheon and walked to Trevi Fountain which was under renovations. Then we walked over to the Spanish Steps. We went to this place for dinner right near the Spanish Steps and ate lunch…

  • ROMA PT I

    ROMA PT I

    We arrived in Rome in the evening, so we just headed to our hotel. We got up early the next morning and took the subway to Vatican City-the Ottaviano stop which is better because then you don’t have to walk up a big hill. Most people take the stop after that. We opted for this…

  • BRUSSELS

    BRUSSELS

    Our next layover city was Brussels, Belgium. We arrived in the morning and had until about 4pm to hang out in the city. It was a pretty chilly day compared to all of our other stops, probably about 15-20 degrees cooler than everywhere else. We planned to leave our backpacks in lockers at the train…

  • KOBENHAGEN

    KOBENHAGEN

    My husband and I have been wanting to take a trip to Europe for many years. We visited the Caribbean and Mexico, and a couple countries in South America together already, so we decided our next big trip would be to Europe. This was the perfect time for us as we celebrated our 10 year…