Exploring Pisa – the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Luminara festival!

Well, it’s time to actually start talking about our time in Italy, yay! As I mentioned in the post about our plan for Italy, we are in Montecarlo, which is a little town about 60km west of Florence. Aside from having the most awesome agriturismo to stay at (more to come on that in another post), Montecarlo is a…

We are in Italy! Our itinerary and what we plan to do for the next six weeks

Well, it was sad, but true, the time had come to leave Greece. But, we were super excited because we were off to spend six weeks in Italy! It was going to be the first time in the country for both us (well, kind of, explained below), and more importantly, we were excited for our first dose of slow travel…

May 2018: Monthly Roundup

Well, I thought last month’s roundup worked well to help me stop and take stock of this trip (and, I guess of this travel blog), and so now we are onto the second monthly roundup, May 2018. Try to hold yourself together and don’t get too excited now. Where we were Wow, I get a bit of angina…

Day 4 in one of our new favorite Greek Islands – Lefkada: Swimming tour of private beaches

Well, days 1-3 of our time in Lefkada were already so awesome. It was hard to imagine anything we could do on day 4 that would make it better. And well, it happened. We created our own “swimming tour” (instead of a “walking tour) along the west side of Lefkada, to visit three of the most popular beaches, but…

Our 1st three days in one of our new favorite Greek islands – Lefkada!

Oh Greece, how do I explain my affection for thee? We first went to Greece in the summer of 2017, shortly after we were engaged. While I’m sure we were on an “engagement-moon high,” we quickly fell in love with this gorgeous country and its amazing beaches, delicious foods and friendly people. When we were planning this trip…