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For my final meal in Rome, I knew Michael and I had to choose an amazing restaurant – but we just didn’t know where. Not wanting to suffer through another touristy spot, we consulted both the internet and our Airbnb hosts’ recommendations. We’d found that a lot of places require reservations, and we knew we …
Sharing some of my best tips for avoiding tourist trap restaurants
We lucked out during our trip to Montréal, Quebec – the 2017 edition of the Montréal en Lumière festival, as well as the one-night-only Nuit Blanche (“White Night”) would be taking place while we were in town.
Rounding up my five go-to shoes for travel in 2017.
“If you don’t know it already, your flight has been canceled,” she said over the intercom, almost mockingly. Michael and I had been at the Milan airport for nearly nine hours when we heard this announcement. We’d shopped all there was to shop, eaten all we could manage to eat, and surfed the internet as …
Michael and I held off on applying for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Global Entry Program for years, in part because of cost ($100? We can buy a plane ticket for that!) and also because none of the nearby enrollment centers had hours that would fit in with our work schedules. Note: The cost …
I don’t know about you, but it feels like as soon as Mother’s Day is over, it’s time to start stressing about what to get my dad and my stepdad for Father’s Day (that’s June 18th, 2017, for those of you here in the US, by the way). This post contains affiliate links and I …
Michael and I booked our recent trip to Italy only a month and a half in advance which didn’t give us much time to plan, let alone learn a new language! Planning took priority of course; we wanted to make sure we had places to stay and a means of getting there. But while covering …
I tried to get to a Sugar Shack. Really, I did. Over Spring Break, Michael and I visited Montreal for the first time, and after planning a trip with the goal of trying many of the city’s diverse food options, we knew we wanted to cap our visit with a trip to a Sugar Shack …
I’m fortunate that my workplace provides a week off for Spring Break, which gave Michael and me the perfect excuse to get away for longer than just our typical weekend getaways! This year, we chose to fly to a destination I’ve wanted to visit forever: Montreal, Quebec. We expected a beautiful city, sure, with lots …