Our journey through Central Europe continued with a stop in the medieval town of Regensburg in Germany. The UNESCO World Heritage site boasts a 2,000-year-old history and is considered the best preserved medieval city in Germany. After we hopped off the Trafalgar coach, our guide Arne led us across an impressive bridge over the raging…
Last October, I got married to my wonderful husband, Davis. We knew we wanted to go on a honeymoon to Europe but decided to delay it to 2024 to ease the already hectic and stressful wedding planning process. As the new year rolled around, we started brainstorming some of our top travel destinations within Europe…
It was a bittersweet feeling knowing that our tour of Italy was coming to an end. On the one hand, I was really sad to say goodbye to a country that I'd grown to absolutely adore. On the other hand, I was really excited for these amazing memories that I would also be able to…
It's one thing to read about history in a high school textbook. It's another to see it with your own eyes. Pompeii was one of those of those elusive places that I could only visualize from the photographs in my history books but had no idea what it could possibly feel like to be there…
Before I actually traveled to Italy, only a few images of the country would come to mind: mostly just scenes of ancient ruins and colossal structures in Rome and gondolas navigating along the narrow canals of Venice. Both were beautiful images in my mind, but little did I know that another gorgeous view would soon…
Prior to visiting Sorrento, I knew very little about this coastal town in southwestern Italy. All I knew was that it was near the town of Naples, which I had only heard about because of its association with the world's best pizza. It was a long trek from Florence to Sorrento -- roughly seven hours…
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