Category: Europe
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Exploring the Dutch Countryside- A Day Trip from Amsterdam
This page includes affiliate links. If you choose to buy through these links I may earn a small commission with no additional cost to you! Since I was visiting Amsterdam on my own, I’d been able to hit just about every tourism site that I was interested in with minimal fuss. Having ended up with…
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Browsing Through Brussels
With Brussels being my first taste of Belgium, I was warned not to expect too much. “It’s too busy,” they would say. “Other cities are way prettier”. Well, they clearly didn’t see the same parts of the city that we did! To be fair, we were also visiting during the city-wide Christmas market, and the…
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What to do in Cambridge, England
For a leisurely day trip out of London, look no farther than Cambridge, England. Just about an hour by train out of central London, Cambridge is most famous for its University, which was founded in 1209 and is the third-oldest continuously operating university in the world! The city has been built up around the university…
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Moving on from Milan
While I try to experience traveling and new locations with a positive attitude, I have to say the my experience in Milan was a rare miss for me. Please do keep in mind that I visited this city nearly a decade ago, so things may have changed quite a bit since my last trip. Let’s…
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Christmas in Bruges
One of the prettiest little cities in Belgium, Bruges is a gift to visit on its own and the holiday celebrations make it an even more lovely destination for a visit. Bruges has two official Christmas Markets that run from Nov 24, 2023 to Jan 7, 2024, plus a host of other winter activities to…
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Munich Christmas Market Memories- A Travel Guide
Having had the singularly unfortunate luck to have last visited Munich smack in-between Oktoberfest and their advent markets, I was determined to experience at least one proper Christmas Market before leaving the city. It was kind of my white whale. Now, being as this visit to Munich was part of a larger, more complicated trip,…
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Making the Most of the Christmas Markets in Zurich, Switzerland
With only a limited amount of time in Zurich, a portion of which was dedicated to a lightning fast day trip over to Lichtenstein, we wanted to make sure we got the most out of Zurich’s famed Christmas markets- especially since our stay just happened to overlap with the opening day of most of the…
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Hiking Bergen- Mt. Fløyen to Mt. Ulriken
Bergen is the second largest city in Norway after Oslo, the country’s capital, and the hike between the two mountains Fløyen and Ulriken is one of the most popular ways to explore the area. From the center of Bergen, visitors will most likely begin their hike from Mt. Fløyen. Although we chose to hike up…
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Hostel Review: Ghent- Hostel Uppelink
For nearly our entire stay in Ghent, we were met with surprised congratulations for making the trip. Apparently, tourists tend to overlook the city in favor of Bruges and Antwerp. It’s hard to imagine why- most of the city’s historic architecture is well preserved and restored and frankly stunning to walk around in. Funnily enough,…
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Dining in Dubrovnik- from a Vegan Perspective
While in Dubrovnik, we were lucky enough to book accommodation with a kitchen. By luck, of course, I mean I planned this- traveling for so many days without expecting to wash our clothes seemed unrealistic, so we’d booked our stay mostly with the intention of taking advantage of the in-unit washer. Of course, the lack…