Tag: Travel Blog
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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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Gorgeous Gorgeous Ghent
Of all the cities we visited in Belgium, Ghent was the one that seemed the most surprised to see us- I guess most tourists tend to skip past the city to visit Bruges or Antwerp instead. More than once, we’d been asked how we’d heard of the city or if there was a particular reason…
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Good Eats in Ghent
Ghent, while beautiful, was definitely hiding its food from us. We were staying in a gorgeous hostel that was smack-dab in the center of town, and while this gave us the best access to all the nearby scenery and gothic buildings, I suspect that those classic buildings were not easily retrofitted to house a kitchen.…
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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 Pack for Winter Travel
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! When I first started traveling, I made the classic mistake of looking at the weather and deciding that I was from a much cooler, wetter climate and would be fine.…
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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…