Andy and I really enjoyed our week in Minori on the Amalfi Coast in 2013. It was a gorgeous place to be and we didn’t do much besides relax and gaze at the water. I almost didn’t want to leave at the end of the week. This time around, we picked Maiori, the next town […]
Italy is one of my favorite countries. It’s one of the few countries I’ve been to more than once, and I just can’t get enough. Two sets of my great grandparents moved to the US from Italy, making me half Italian, so maybe that’s part of why I’m so drawn to the country. But I’m […]
The Amalfi Coast was where we recovered from so many weeks of traveling through Europe too quickly. It’s such a gorgeous part of Italy, and even though there are tons of activities to do and so many beautiful sights to see, we mostly just sat around enjoying the view. We needed that time to slow […]
Andy really likes boats. This is probably a big reason why we ended up renting a canal boat for our time in Rotterdam. We also planned on taking a ferry from Naples to Amalfi to get to our wonderful apartment in Minori, but they weren’t running for some reason. The day we went to check […]
During our week on the Amalfi Coast, Andy and I enjoyed relaxing and doing almost nothing in Minori. But we did take one day trip to the towns of Amalfi and Positano. Amalfi is obviously where the coast gets its name, and the town has a lot of history there about the region’s maritime roots. […]
At several points during our trip, Andy and I realized we were traveling too quickly and trying to do too many things. In Amsterdam and Brussels we decided to cut out some of the day trips we had planned, and we skipped going to Monaco from Nice. We couldn’t cancel plans we had already made […]
When Andy and I set off on our Beyond Vacation kick-off trip, I decided to keep track of every penny we spent. There were two reasons for this. We’ve never really tracked our travel spending, and I wanted to know how much it costs for us to travel for more than a week or two. […]
Blue as far as the eye can see, above and below, all other colors seem trivial. But as the hours and minutes tick by, marked every half hour by the dinging of the church bells not so far away, the blue gives way to pastel pinks and pale purples. I close my eyes and take […]
If you missed part 1 of the Beyond Vacation kick-off itinerary, check it out here. Part 2 is the month of June, and June is all about Italy! Italy is one of our favorite countries, and when two of my relatives told me they were going to be in Italy in June, we couldn’t resist. […]