Tag: things to do
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New York Botanical Garden’s Annual Orchid Show
Since 1891, the New York Botanical Garden has served as an oasis of greenery in the Bronx. The 250 acre botanical garden houses over one million living plants, a huge greenhouse and a library containing one of the largest collection of botanical texts in the world. Although the property is huge, it doesn’t take long…
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24 Hours in Florence – A Fast Paced Florence Tour
Only have a few days in Florence but want to see it all? Look no further, this is your go-to-guide for getting to all the can’t-miss sites in Florence in just 24 hours. With only a day in the city, we’re going to have to get an early start. Make sure you’ve got plenty of…
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Museum Hopping in Florence
Florence! City of art and arguably the birthplace of the Renaissance, Florence attracts millions of visitors each year with its fantastic food, museums, and architecture. With 72 museums in the city, no wonder visitors can find themselves overwhelmed by their options! You can spend a full month in Florence and still not see every museum.…
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A Guide to Versailles
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! With 15 million visitors per year, the Palace of Versailles is one of the most popular tourist sites in Paris, if not the world. Although it began its life as…
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Visiting Vienna on a Budget – What to See
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! Famously beautiful and famously expensive, Austria’s capital city of Vienna is rich with culture. Its massive palaces, baroque architecture, coffee culture, and musical legacy make it an appealing destination for…
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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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New York City Christmas Market Guide
Having spent the majority of last year’s winter season sprinting full speed around various holiday markets throughout Europe, I was excited to experience the festivities in New York to the fullest. While I mostly focused on Manhattan’s Holiday Market options, I tend to walk just about everywhere so I’ve included some bonus festive decor and…
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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,…