Tag: Milan

Travel, Travel Tips

The Secret to a Great Stay: Seven Tips for Choosing the Perfect Airbnb

An Airbnb balcony in Italy's Cinque Terre

I’ve written before about my love for Airbnb, but today I want to share a few tips on how to find your perfect “home” out in the world. Why choose Airbnb when there are perfectly good, well-rated hotels nearly everywhere you want to go? I find that hotels put a distance between you and the …

Destinations, Italy, Travel, Travel Tips

It’s Nice to be Nice… (or “How we survived over 24 hours with the most miserable people ever”)

Alyssa and Michael eat gelato at the airport in Milan

“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 …