Hotels.com is where I most often find places to stay when I travel. I love that you can get a free night for every 10 you pay for, but its also a great way to find the best places in town. When MB and I went to Verona, we stayed at Due Torri, a four …
Month: November 2016
Getting Lake Garda and Verona in all in one weekend might sound exhausting- that’s because it is. MB and I had decided two days in Sirmione, on the shore of Garda, and one in Verona, was enough. While I LOVED my time in Sirmione, I could have done with another day in Verona. Its become …
So Donald Trump is now the president of the United States. That means he is my president. It makes me feel sick and on the verge of tears, but, despite the fact that he lost the popular vote, that’s the reality of the situation. I realize this is a travel blog, and I promise that …
I had never really thought of Lake Garda and Verona as big places on my travel “to do” list, but MB insisted we get out of London one weekend in early November. It’s been about a year since I was last in Italy (S. and I took a trip to Sicily in November 2015), and …
I have already been to Portugal, but of course, you can never be somewhere more than once! When my mother said she wanted to go to Madeira for her 60th birthday, I obviously knew I had to show her a good time. Being budget conscious, I looked outside of the tourist side of town for …
Your mother only turns 60 once. I asked told my mother I’d take her anywhere in the world for her birthday. After Googling places with terracotta roofs, she decided on Funchal, Madeira, in Portugal. Madeira is a tiny island off the coast of northern Africa, in the Atlantic. It is absolutely gorgeous. From the moment …