We headed back to Amsterdam from our Christmas markets trip to spend time together relaxing and with friends. For Christmas we celebrated with friends on the 24th and 26th and had a lovely day the 2 of us on the 25th. Reading, baking, eating, calling family at home and of course doing a puzzle. Amsterdam … More Amsterdam for the holidays
Hello from country #30! We took a bus for a few hours to arrive in Riga, Latvia! I didn’t know too much about Riga before coming, but so far I have been very impressed! We stayed at a 5 star hotel for around €120 a night- love Latvia prices. It was also a 2 minute … More Live•Laugh•Love•Latvia 🇱🇻
Off the ferry and so easy to walk into Tallinn and start exploring! We stayed at City Box hotel and paid only €35 a night- what a steal! It was a bit rainy and Ryan wasn’t feeling 100% so we took it nice and easy. We visited a brewery (Humalakoda Pub Restaurant Brewery) in the … More I’m Tallinn ya, you should plan a trip to Estonia
This year we are mixing it up and instead of going home for the holidays we decided to take the opportunity to visit some of the Christmas markets in the Baltics. I saw a blog about this trip ages ago on Pinterest and it has been on my list ever since! We flew from Amsterdam … More We saw, sauna-ed, and sailed in Helsinki
I was looking back at blog posts and realized most are from travel, with less posts about Amsterdam and our daily life. I hope to mix in some more daily life too ❤️ What do we do on the weekends when in Amsterdam? Well, unlike it looks like on this blog, we do spent a … More Amsterdam Autumn
Girls weekend! With lots of visitors in and out for September and October it was time for a girls weekend to Paris! As long as you book in advance, it is quite nice being able to jump on the high speed train and be in Paris in about 3 hours from Amsterdam. I simply walked … More Like we were in Paris 🎶
The final stop of our Portugal road trip we drove down to the Algarve coast. This had been on my list since the first time I visited Portugal in 2017 so it was much anticipated! I went back and forth so many times where to stay along the coast and even had multiple properties booked … More If you like piña coladas🎶
This was my third trip to Lisbon and how lucky am I to have great friends in the most beautiful places!?! We got to our friend’s place in Lisbon late after our drive down and the next day was spent wandering around Sintra. For those of you that have been long time followers here on … More Lis-bon voyage!
After our time in the Duoro valley we headed South to spend time with friends that live in Lisbon. We had so much fun driving down with lots of stops along the way. I would also add how easy the driving is. In general Americans are very hesitant to rent a car abroad, but it … More Shades of Portugal
Stop 2 of our Portugal road trip was to the Douro valley region. It is only a couple hours from Porto. It is super common to take a day trip, but when planning our trip we decided we wanted to spend a few days in the area. The highlight for sure was some of the … More Grape views in Douro Valley
Smiles from Miles Away 