The week between Christmas and New Year’s, we headed for the mountains to the family friendly resort of Le Grand Bornand. Unfortunately this was the third winter in a row that there has been no snow at the end of December in the Alps, but luckily the resort had snow Continue Reading
Christmas has long past, but we had a great weekend getaway to Zurich a couple of weeks before the holiday. We had been meaning to get to Zurich for a while now and since it sounded quite festive at Christmas, we figured it was high time we check it out! Continue Reading
Travel and Leisure magazine named Portugal as one of the top travel destinations for 2016 and maybe because it’s been on our travel radar also, or maybe it’s just been in the spotlight lately, but we’ve been seeing articles about the Douro Valley all over the place. After seeing pictures Continue Reading
Portugal has been on our list for a long time now and since we have only spent a night in Lisbon, we knew we needed to go back and check out more of the country. After doing some research, Porto and the Douro Valley seemed like the perfect fall destinations Continue Reading
Like many Americans, the recent election has left me reeling and I haven’t posted about our recent travels because it just feels frivolous in light of all that is going on in the world right now. But the more I think about, it’s never been so important for us to Continue Reading
We just got back from a wonderful few days in Portugal for this year’s fall break after much deliberation about where we would go. It’s always a bit overwhelming to decide where to go in the fall (now that we are locked into the school holidays) since late October is Continue Reading
For our last trip of the summer we spent an amazing few days in Menorca, the smallest of the Balearic Islands off the coast of Spain. We booked this trip way back in February mainly because we found crazy cheap tickets on Easyjet, but also because we LOVE Spain and Continue Reading
This summer we finally tackled something we I have been wanting to do for a while now…a family camping trip! My husband loves to hike, but does not relish the idea of sleeping out in nature…however, he was a trooper and wound up having a great time. We went with Continue Reading
We have been wanting to go to Zermatt since we first moved here, but every time I looked last summer the weather wasn’t great. We decided to finally bite the bullet (come rain or shine…or something in between 😉 ) and spend the weekend of Swiss National Day in the most Continue Reading
We saved the bigger cities of Tuscany for the end of the week and on Thursday with cooler temps we headed to Siena for a day of sightseeing. We stopped along the way in the ancient walled village of Monteriggioni for a quick walk around and a morning gelato to Continue Reading
