Tag: travel guide

  • How to Spend a Week in Budapest

    How to Spend a Week in Budapest

    If you’re like me and your life revolves around every possible moment you get to spend within Old World elegance, then Budapest is your place. Stick with me as I walk you through a week’s worth of activities and vacation ideas full of history, opulence, and splendor. And consider making…

  • Our Autumn Road Trip in New England

    Our Autumn Road Trip in New England

    Even though I grew up in Virginia, where we got our fair share of autumn every year, a part of me always wanted to go to New England to visit/see autumn/live. I remember exactly how this fantasy started: We got a magazine in the mail that had one tiny photo…

  • How to Spend a New Orleans Weekend

    How to Spend a New Orleans Weekend

    Forty-nine years ago, my boyfriend’s parents celebrated their honeymoon in New Orleans. Last week, they invited him, his sister and brother-in-law, and me to join them there for their anniversary. What fun! I was not accustomed to traveling with a group, and particularly not one I like so much. We…

  • My Nostalgic Virginia Travel Guide

    My Nostalgic Virginia Travel Guide

    We were supposed to be in Virginia this week, seeing autumn. We were going to take a lovely road trip where I showed my boyfriend all the beautiful places I could remember from my childhood, set against a colorful, fall-flavored backdrop. But then the pandemic happened and threw off everyone’s…

  • 9 Lessons We Learned While Taking the Trains in Europe

    9 Lessons We Learned While Taking the Trains in Europe

    Were I to do a Christmas markets trip again, the first thing I would do differently would be to limit it to just two cities instead of three. Eight days simply isn’t enough time to take in three cities in three separate countries. The other thing I would do would…

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