Everyone I know who has ever visited Florence is obsessed with Florence. When I’d bring up visiting Italy, their eyes would light up and they’d wax poetic about the art and the history and shopping. And the food, oh the food. The best, they’d say. There were lofty expectations in place for Florence long before Read more
Our first full day onboard the Vision of the Seas brought us into Cannes, in the Côte d’Azur region of France. We were beyond words excited for this port for many reasons: Mom had basically waited her entire life to step foot onto French soil, Cannes has a reputation of luxury and as a hotspot Read more
On days where our trip moves from hotel to cruise ship, we’re usually up with the sun. If the early bird gets the worm, the early cruiser gets no lines. In line with just about everything else about this trip, though, there wasn’t much that followed our usual cruise routine – Stephanie was the only Read more
The sunlight was beaming into our room brightly, waking us up for our first full day in Spain. Even though the sun set late, the sunrise was nice and early, which worked out well for us because we had a tour to get ready for. We’d packed some packaged snacks in our luggage, so we Read more
In many ways, I feel like this trip kind of snuck up on me. We’d been planning it for months, but it always seemed just out of sight until the moment it was actually here. This trip, our departure in particular, was extraordinarily more stressful than any other trip we’d taken. European culture and customs Read more
