Last Updated: 3/4/24 | March 4th, 2024 Portland, Oregon, is one of America’s most unique cities. With a world-class food scene, plentiful local breweries, and postcard-perfect scenery, it’s surprising that more people don’t visit this eclectic city. I first visited here in 2011 for Thanksgiving. While in Spain, I made friends who lived in Portland […]
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Slovakia Travel Guide
Slovakia is a Central European country known for its dramatic mountainous landscapes, medieval history, and stunning architecture. As a land-locked country, it’s been part of numerous empires and governments throughout its history, all of which have left their own unique influence on the region. I’ve visited Slovakia several times over the years and I’m always […]
Croatia Itineraries: From One Week to a Month!
Posted: 1/10/23 | January 10th, 2023 Croatia is a country with over a thousand islands, a long coastline dotted with sun-bleached medieval towns, a cosmopolitan capital city, an underappreciated wine region, and an untrammeled inland landscape that sees a fraction of the tourists that the Dalmatian Coast brings in. During the pandemic, Croatia was one […]
Where to Stay in Dubrovnik: The Best Neighborhoods for Your Visit
Last Updated: 4/9/24 | April 9th, 2024 Dubrovnik is the most popular city in Croatia. Famed for its historic and well-preserved Old Town (and as a filming location for Game of Thrones), this picturesque city of 40,000 inhabitants swells with tourists from May to early October, thanks to a growing number of cruise ships that […]
Travel Guides
My travel guides aim to give you the best and most up-to-date information on the major travel destinations around the world. (I know how bad it is to get outdated information from a print guidebook so I keep all these pages updated constantly!) Here you will find things to see and do, information about costs, […]
How to Hike the Inca Trail
Last Updated: 12/8/23 | December 8th, 2023 Machu Picchu is one of those bucket-list activities people dream about. While most people visit on a day trip, you can also visit via the Inca Trail, a challenging multi-day hike through the jungles of Peru. In this guest post, Gillian divulges the details of her trek while […]
Learning Pura Vida in Costa Rica
Updated: 02/05/2019 | February 5th, 2019 This is a guest post by Abby Tegnelia, a former expat living in Costa Rica. “Pura vida” is a common expression in Costa Rica, roughly translated to “the pure life” in English. Abby’s time in Costa Rica was full of pura vida life experiences. She lived in a one-room […]
Falling in Love with the Land of Elves
Updated: 03/16/20 | March 16th, 2020 As we stared up at the sky, patches of neon and dark green changed to light pink and back to green. They came out of nowhere, hung like curtains on invisible hangers, and danced a duet to an unheard symphony. They would appear, vanish, and reappear all over the […]
The 10 Best Day Trips from Paris
Last Updated: 7/13/22 | July 13th, 2022 Paris is one of my favorite cities in the world for many reasons. Heck, I love it so much that I even lived there for a while! This city has it all — and it would take a lifetime to really see. Even after a decade of visiting […]
The 6 Best Hotels in Athens
Posted: 12/19/23 | December 19th, 2023 This 5,000-year-old Greek capital is home to the iconic Acropolis with its hilltop of millennia-old structures and ruins, and just below it, the Plaka neighborhood, a labyrinth of streets lined with bars, restaurants, and ancient ruins. While Athens has never spoken to me the way that other European capitals […]
The 21 Best Things to See and Do in Helsinki
Last Updated: 3/4/24 | March 4th, 2024 When I landed in Helsinki, I didn’t really know what to expect. Out of all the capital cities in Northern Europe, Helsinki gets the least “buzz.” Founded in the 16th century by the King of Sweden, Helsinki was originally established to rival the bustling trading port of Tallinn. […]
Eating the World’s Hottest Pepper
Updated: 04/01/2018 | April 1st, 2018 A few weeks ago, I was in Austin, Texas, for the SXSW music festival. Since I was in town for over 10 days, I wanted to get away from the festival and explore Austin. I asked some of my local friends to give me a list of their Austin. […]