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  • New Place! Marseille, France 4/29

    New Place! Marseille, France 4/29

    After a coupe of pleasant days in Nice, we headed further west on our slow path towards Barcelona. We’ve read very mixed things about Marseille… it’s apparently the second largest city in France (~1.5M people) and people describe it as gritty and not entirely safe. Some people seem to love it, but many suggest avoiding…

  • New place! Nice, FR and the French Riviera plus Monaco

    New place! Nice, FR and the French Riviera plus Monaco

    We are way behind on actually posting pictures and thoughts on the various cities we’ve been visiting, but I’m at least trying to catch-up on the overall itinerary and then we’ll feel in the blanks as we have some more down time. Lots of moving around lately. After Cinque Terra, we were done with Italy…

  • Visiting Cinque Terre

    Visiting Cinque Terre

    Cinque Terre is a collection of 5 villages on the coast of Italy that historically could only be accessed by boat or footpaths (I read that they were originally goat paths) between the villages.  They are basically famous for being really, really pretty, and lots of people go to hike along the paths connecting the…

  • New place! Cinque Terre, Italy 4/25 (by way of Lucca)

    New place! Cinque Terre, Italy 4/25 (by way of Lucca)

    2 nights was enough of Bologna for us. Our next destination was Cinque Terre and we initially thought it would be cool to rent a car and stop by Modena and Parma on the way. We were looking into parmesan cheese factory tours outside Parma and realized that most everything was closed on the Thursday…

  • New place! Bologna, 4/23

    New place! Bologna, 4/23

    We’ve heard good things about Bologna. Apparently it’s the “food capital” of Italy and home to Bolognese sauce as well as very close to Modena where Balsamic Vinegar comes from and Parma where parmigian cheese and prosciutto come from (among other foods). It’s a ~3 hour train from Rome. We’re excited to check it out…

  • Rome

    Rome

    Rome is spectacular. 2 years ago we took a family trip to Italy and had one day in Rome right before returning home. We hustled through the city, but had a fantastic time. Coming back we were excited to spend more time there (though also a little nervous that it might not live up to…

  • New place! Rome 4/19

    New place! Rome 4/19

    We decided we could use a break from Spain, so hopped an Iberia Air flight to Rome. We had spent only a single day in Rome on a prior family vacation and loved it, but barely scratched the surface on the many things to do there. So, great Italian food plus some amazing sites seemed…

  • Thoughts on Madrid

    Thoughts on Madrid

    Awesome, except for the hostility… Initially we were super impressed by Madrid. It’s one of the 5 largest cities in Europe (~5M people) and the capital of a country that once controlled ~13% of the world’s landmass, so it makes sense that it is a great city. We were surprised at how modern and cosmopolitan…

  • New place! Madrid

    New place! Madrid

    Rick Steves was maybe a bit extreme, but we did not love the Costa del Sol and decided to shorten our stay by a night and catch one of the ~15 daily trains north to Madrid. I’m sitting on the ~3 hour train as I write this and will say that it is the most…

  • Nerja and the Costa Azul (the Southern Coast of Spain)

    Nerja and the Costa Azul (the Southern Coast of Spain)

    Apparently the southern coast of Spain is famous for sun – and very popular with British tourists looking to get away from the perpetual grey weather (we know something about that).  We wanted to see where our new British neighbors would be vacationing, so we drove down to the Costa Azul after our time in…