Nothing beats sipping a sunset cocktail in a rooftop bar with a panoramic city view. It’s one of my favorite ways to experience beautiful Spanish cities! And in Barcelona, there is no shortage of trendy bars to enjoy a bird’s eye view of the Med, Gaudi’s famous Sagrada Familia, or wide tree-lined boulevards in this […]
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On Sunday There Is No Menu
“On Sunday, there is no menu,” the waitress informed us with her eyes downcast and her hands in the air. “We serve family style.” We smiled. And our bellies rumbled. We’d just arrived from a whirlwind drive—on an inspired route courtesy of the “local roads only” setting on our car’s nav—through a shimmering Aspen forest […]
Travel Inspiration: An Interview with Nomadic Matt
Before I started this travel blog in January 2018, I was like many Americans who save up for a single annual vacation splurge. But then I started reading travel blogs which challenged that notion for me. I started socking away tricks and tips on how to creatively extend a work trip, make my travel dollars […]
Beautiful Bregenz: Cycling Lake Constance and Hiking the Pfänder
It’s true that the last place I’ve visited is always my new favorite destination. But…If I had to pick a perfect base in Europe that was drop dead gorgeous, but conveniently located to some of my favorite places, I’m pretty sure it would be Bregenz, Austria in the Vorarlberg region. Cycling Lake Constance and hiking […]
Fox Glacier Heli Hike: A Bucket List Experience
“About once every year or two, we have a group that ends up overnighting up here,” our glacier guide confessed as six of us huddled together under ragged wind and slushy rain high up on Fox Glacier. “A storm just blows in too fast to get everyone out in safe conditions.” That was our introduction […]