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August 7, 2024

Sintra Castles: How To Have a Perfect Day Trip To Sintra From Lisbon in 2024

image of Castelo dos Mouros in Sintra, Portugal

We took a day trip to Sintra from Lisbon during a recent trip to Portugal, and it was one of my absolute favorite things of the whole trip! I’m here to share what it was like booking a private tour and seeing the top spots in Sintra.

July 3, 2024

See Porto in 3 Days: A 3 Day Porto Itinerary With 17 Beautiful Things To Do!

Porto is one of the most beautiful cities I’ve visited in Europe! I had an incredible time exploring Porto in 3 days during my one-week Portugal trip earlier this year. Now, I’m here to share my personal Porto recommendations to ensure you devour this captivating Portuguese city!

June 5, 2024

The 6 Best Views in Lisbon: See the Most Astonishing Lisbon Miradouros! (With Locations!)

Lisbon is known for its incredible miradouros or viewpoints as it’s built on seven hills that offer incomparable views! Find the absolute best views in Lisbon for free, by doing this little Lisbon miradouros crawl instead of waiting forever in line to ride the Santa Justa Lift.

May 29, 2024

Top 13 Things To Do in Lisbon for First Timers

I have to confess I didn’t ride the infamous Tram 28 in Lisbon. Every time we tried, iba hasta la madre (no other way to describe it; it was packed like sardines). I was not about to jam myself into the most crowded tram I’ve ever seen.

November 25, 2017

Merde! We Flooded an Apartment in Paris!

What I saw next almost made me pee my pants. It was as if the single step that led up to the bathroom had metamorphed into a tiny waterfall of doom. Our doom. Our Airbnb doom. Let’s be honest, the first thing that came to my mind was the bad review I was surely going to get because of this!

June 5, 2017

Beer, Bugs & Bitterballen — My First Time in Amsterdam

Okay, I know. It’s been way too long since my trip to Europe but I’d hate myself if I didn’t finish the series of Europe blogs I was supposed to write since I came back. So put on your seatbelt and get ready to cry with me because we’re at home and not in Amsterdam.

September 26, 2016

Copenhagen, I was in you.

How does one casually begin a blog post after almost year of not posting without being too obvious about not being around for that long? You don’t? Well, okay! Let me just jump right into it then. I was in Europe…

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