Ireland was always a country that I’d desperately wanted to visit. It still is … I can’t wait to go back someday. I’m in awe of how green and magical the Irish landscape looks in photos. And I always appreciate a good pub and a perfectly poured pint of Guinness. When we decided to visit…
In hindsight, because we didn’t have a ton of time, we should have stayed in Edinburgh and planned to visit the Scottish Highlands on a day or overnight tour from Edinburgh. But how were we to know?! Instead though, after a few days exploring Edinburgh, we headed north by train to Inverness, Scotland with the…
Edinburgh was the first city we ever visited in Europe, so maybe that’s the reason why I love it so much. But I also think it’s more than that. Edinburgh has a magic about it and whether you’re strolling the Royal Mile, shopping and dining in New Town, venturing out to the seaside area of…
Located on the Danube River in Austria, Vienna is a beautiful and romantic city filled with rich architecture and grand buildings. And did I mention that the coffee is delicious and the schnitzel is spectacular?! For us, Vienna was the last city stop on a two-week vacation through Germany and Austria. We didn’t over plan…
Ever since I was a little girl watching Julie Andrews twirl and sing atop the hills in The Sound of Music, I have wanted to travel to Austria. It’s for this reason that we first started looking at Salzburg as a city we couldn’t miss on our recent trip through Germany and Austria. We didn’t…
On our recent visit to Munich, it was an absolute priority that we took a day trip to see Neuschwanstein Castle in Southwest Bavaria. I’d admired pictures of it for years, after all, it was the castle that inspired Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty castle at Disneyland in California. But although Neuschwanstein Castle looks like something…
I vividly remember first learning about the Holocaust when I was a girl in school. I remember not understanding how and why something that horrific could ever occur. I remember crying as I read the Diary of Anne Frank from start to finish. I wondered how people could treat other people that way. I still…
On our recent trip to Germany, we visited Munich for a few days and were lucky enough to meet a friend of ours who kindly volunteered to take us outside of Munich to go hiking. If you’re an outdoor enthusiast, you’ll find no shortage of activities in the areas surrounding Munich – there are mountains to…
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