Despite having been to mainland Europe several times and having explored most of Western Europe, I somehow always missed Portugal. I thought it was comparatively expensive when I was first traveling abroad in 2005, and I thought it was difficult to get to by train from everywhere else when we were backpacking in 2007. In …
Category: Europe
Spain Siesta
One of my biggest challenges when planning our travels--whether it be a weekend trip somewhere domestic or a several week international excursion--is that I try to squeeze in too much. My husband, as well as friends, will tell you I pack the itinerary to a painful point in order to make sure we miss nothing. …
30 By 30: Morocco and Portugal
The flights and hotels are booked. We're officially headed to Morocco and Portugal this May. I'm officially going to have been to 30 countries by the time I turn 30. For the record, I have the world's greatest husband. I am so grateful he goes along with some of these crazy ideas and genuinely supports …
2013 Travel Recap
Each year I try to recap the places I've been. I didn't start my blog until 2009 (years prior to 2009 involved lots of travel so I don't know how I would have recapped all of that!) and the trips have been reasonable--both domestic and international, and some not so far from home. Although I …
Honeymoon Travel: Romania
The underdog of our honeymoon was Romania. I had been waiting forever to see Turkey and Greece, and I was excited about Croatia and the good things I'd heard about Dubrovnik; but I didn't have much background or information or really any idea what we were getting ourselves into visiting Romania. We actually threw it …
Honeymoon Travel: Greece
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I originally thought we should go to Turkey and Greece for our honeymoon. Due to a fairly involved travel schedule in order for us to do everything we wanted, we opted to set that trip aside for another time when we're on a regular vacation and planned a …
Honeymoon Travel: Italy
Our honeymoon cruise took us to two ports in Italy--Venice and Bari. Venice was a very popular port for people joining and leaving the cruise--I would say the majority of passengers actually began and ended there. We had looked at doing the same but flying in and out of Italy was nearly twice the cost …
Heather's Compass 