We had one main item on the agenda during our seven days in Naples: Find the best pizza on earth. Modern pizza was invented in Naples, so we figured the best pizza in Naples had to be the best pizza anywhere. We were so…
Sometimes we have to make hard choices. Like ice cream or gelato. Beaches or mountains. Lisbon or Porto. Portugal has fast become one of my favorite countries in Europe, and Lisbon and Porto are two of my favorite cities. These two towns are only…
Where do you travel in the winter? Finding a great place to spend a winter holiday seems to be one of the hardest decisions for us. The options seem to be to 1) Embrace the cold, and go full-out with skiing and cabins and hot…
We’ve dealt with our fair share of crazy roads and bad traffic after five years in Los Angeles, but there were still some adjustments to make for a road trip through the countryside of Ireland. Read on for everything you need to know about…
If I had to sum up the coast of Ireland in only a few words, I’d use rugged, raw, and absolutely stunning. The western Irish coast is the first land mass hit by the Atlantic, creating some of the highest drop offs in Europe.…
I haven’t met a person yet who hasn’t loved Portugal. From the first day I was there last October, I knew it was a place I wanted to spend a lot more time. The weather is beautiful, the people are exceptionally friendly (and love…
The colorful hill town of Sintra boasts three palaces, an old Moorish Castle, a gothic mansion, and miles of forested hiking paths. It easily makes my list of the places you can’t miss when visiting Portugal. A day trip to Sintra is a chance…
You can hardly walk a block in Lisbon without passing a bakery or pastry shop. To say the Portuguese like their sweets is a bit of understatement, which means we fit right in. 🙂 We made it our mission to try almost every pastry…
While you may have booked a trip to Santorini for the white cave houses, infinity pools and sunsets of Oia, the resort town and the black sand beach in Perissa is the perfect place to let time slow way, way down. To just seep up…
