Tips & Tricks: Traveling During the Winter Holidays

The Winter Holidays are fast approaching (even faster if you are in the USA) and many of us already have traveling plans. A lot of people are just starting to make plans. With people traveling the country or continent to visit relatives or just head out to celebrate in other places than home, traveling during…

1 Week in Europe Itinerary: Visiting Italy

Italy makes you fall in love with it in a second, yet a lifetime is not enough to explore all its beautiful places. For a first time visitor, a week offers enough time to get a taste of La Bella Vita and get hooked for life. There are so many things I love about Italy…

How to plan a last minute budget vacation

Planning a budget vacation doesn’t exactly conjure images of “last minute” in the same sentence. But, rest assured, it is possible to plan a last-minute budget vacation although, typically, a vacation takes weeks or months ahead to plan. Sure this has its perks and allows for a lot of thinking, but there’s something amazing about…

Tips & Tricks: Train Travel in Italy

It may not be a surprise for you that we love trains. And planes. And hate buses. Traveling by train has that unexplained romantic feeling to it and no matter how much I try to put it in words, they always fail me. But then again, “Murder in the Orient Express” (Agatha Christie) also takes…

Video: 7 days in Italy

Enjoy a short video with our highlights from the trip to Italy. Video: Alex & Cris P. Music: Happy Strummin by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/

Tips & Tricks: Train Travel in Romania

Since we live in Romania, planning a vacation here should be easier than planning something abroad, right? Errr, actually, it may be not! I’ve been traveling by train in Romania since I was a child. I still remember the trip to Sibiu and then to Voineasa, with my parents. And I still remember going to…