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Originally, our summer trip in 2019 was only going to consist of France and Italy. However, once we had the opportunity to visit Ian in Australia, we knew that we could make another stop as a layover between continents. Singapore is a common layover from…
We were only in New Orleans for 4 days so we tried to make the most of it! We stayed busy for most of the time, but I sprained my foot halfway through the trip so we weren’t able to do as much, especially if it involved walking or a lot of traveling. We joked that the first half of the trip it was raining and the second half of the trip I was limping around so we never really got a “good” day…
So many types of food are unique to New Orleans. Gumbo, jambalaya, po-boys, and so many different kinds of seafood! Oysters, crawfish, shrimp, and more. We also learned very quickly that hot sauce was served with every meal and we LOVED it. Every meal we had in New Orleans was fabulous so it was impossible to narrow down our recommendations. So here are 8…
We love to get advice on what to do before we head out on a trip. One of our friends highly recommended going on a plantation tour and going on a swamp tour. We immediately started googling it and found a tour on Trip Adviser that did both! Several other people recommended ghost tours or cemetery tours. One of my coworkers said she went on a cocktail tour! Needless to say…
How could we not visit the French Quarter while in New Orleans? We knew it was a touristy spot and that stores and restaurants are typically overpriced here, but when we arrived at around 9:30am, it wasn’t too crowded at all! However, we went back at 5:30pm and it was totally different! You could barely walk through the crowds of people - reminded us a bit of NYC, especially…
When we started planning our trip to New Orleans, we reserved an Airbnb on Magazine Street. As we found restaurants and things to do, so many addresses also said Magazine Street. I remember saying, “Wow, that must be right next to our Airbnb” at least half a dozen times as we looked things up. Well, it turns out that Magazine Street is six miles of restaurants, antique stores, boutiques…
Nick and I chose to go to New Orleans this winter quite randomly. We knew which dates we wanted so we researched and found the cheapest option, which happened to be New Orleans. Even though it wasn’t on our list of travels for the near future, I had mentioned coming here a few times before, and with the low prices, we decided to go for it! When we arrived in New Orleans at 9am, we…
Having just come from Melbourne (which is known as the coffee capital of Australia), we had been spoiled with amazing coffee all week. When we got to Sydney, we made a list of some popular cafes and tried one or two each day. Here is a list of our favorites!
After spending a week in Melbourne, we realized that Australia has some of the best food variety we’ve ever had! We were so excited to move on to Sydney to see what this city had to offer. When researching and planning our trip, one of our favorite things to do is create a list of…
Our AirBnb was a fantastic location, right off of Hydes Park. From our fairly central location, we decided to take a day and do a walking tour of several free museums in the area. Since we were on a pretty tight budget, walking and hanging out at museums was the perfect…
We were so excited to start exploring Sydney and the first thing we thought of was obviously the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House. We were staying at an Airbnb right next to Hyde Park and planned a walking trip all the way across the bridge. It turned out to be several miles, but it was pretty warm that day (since it was July, it was winter in Australia!), so we didn’t mind…
One of our last days in Sydney fell on the Fourth of July, which is one of my favorite holidays. Obviously we couldn’t celebrate it in our traditional ways, so we decided to take the bus to Newtown, a southwest suburb of Sydney. We didn’t quite know what to do there except for a coffee shop we wanted to try, so we started our morning at Brewtown, reading our books and figuring out what…
One of the things we were most excited about was doing to Bondi to Coogee coastal walk. We decided to spend the morning in Bondi and then do the walk, which is almost 4 miles, and head back from Coogee. We started out at a cute cafe/bookstore called Gertrude and Alice. We got coffee and read our own books, although I couldn’t help flipping through some of the books they had…
When we got to Melbourne, one of the first things we heard was that it’s considered by some as the “coffee capital of the world”. There are so many cafes and they take coffee seriously. We saw so many people using KeepCups or reusable travel mugs when getting “take away” coffee. In fact, some cafes don’t even have disposable cups so your options are to sit in or to bring your…
Whenever we go to a new city, or a new country, we always try to find out what food it is known for, or what the local dish is. Going to Australia, we heard about the amazing pies and sausage rolls, which we eventually tried in Sydney, but in Melbourne, we tried none of the “traditional” Australian dishes that we had heard about. Melbourne is so diverse that we ended up trying a lot…
Because of the day trips that we took from Melbourne, we only had about 4 days in the city. We wanted to take advantage of those days and do as many of the attractions that we could! The first night we were there, even though we were super jetlagged, we went to a free comedy show at Spleen. Because it was free, our hopes weren’t too high, but it was hilarious! We were laughing the…
The first day we got to Melbourne we were super tired after 20+ hours of traveling so we spent the day being lazy. The next morning we woke up ready to walk around the town! We first stopped at a bakery for breakfast and then went to the Central…
Every time we visit a new city, I always look to see if the area has a Chinatown. In the US, we’ve seen a few cities with Chinatown’s that have really stood out, most noticeably Oakland’s Chinatown. With that said, we were excited to go through Chinatown Melbourne to try as much food as we possibly could. One thing that made Chinatown Melbourne different was the lack of…
We were so excited for our trip to Wilson’s Prom. There are so many different trails and hikes but we decided on Mount Oberon, which we heard was pretty steep but had the best views. To get to the trail, we had to drive through the park for almost an hour, which was awesome! We saw wallabies, kangaroo, emus, and wombats right by the road! And birds! There were so many…
Since we were staying in Melbourne for 7 days, our friend Ian suggested renting a car and taking a couple days outside the city. So we did! We rented a car and had to learn how to drive on the left side of the road. It definitely isn’t as hard as it sounds but it was…
We took a day trip to Peninsula Hot Springs, which I’ll write about tomorrow because it was amazing! But on the way to our airbnb, we wanted to stop at a look out. There are so many to choose from, but we decided to stop at Mount Martha Beach South because we knew there was a beach and cliffs and figured that would photograph well. It only took us about 25 minutes to drive there…
When we went to Cape May for a weekend, we let our friends Josh and Rachel take us around since they had been there before. We bought some groceries at the start of our trip so we could save money, although we did spend a lot of money on root beer and vanilla ice cream to make homemade root beer floats. We did go out to eat a few times and when we did, it was delicious!
Our friends Josh and Rachel invited us to join them for a weekend in Cape May. It was before Memorial Day weekend so it wasn’t really the typical weather for the beach. We have always visited Ocean Beach with Nick’s family, so neither of us had ever been to Cape May. When we first heard beach trip, our minds went to laying in the sand, swimming, walking on a boardwalk, etc. This…
We are so excited to share with you all the places we got coffee in DC. Everywhere we went was delicious and had plenty of dairy free options. This was the first time we ever used our Keep Cups and they were super easy to use! It was a big conversation starter with strangers - so many people came up to us and asked about them! We get coffee to-go so often, especially when traveling…
DC was such a beautiful place to visit and it had such good food! Even though DC is super touristy, we never ran into huge crowds or the need for reservations - maybe we just got lucky, but it was pretty easy! It was hard to find budget friendly restaurants, but…
We’ve said it before, but we really can’t believe it’s taken us so long to go to DC - especially since it’s just a few hours away! Seeing the Capitol Building and the Washington Monument felt so surreal because I am so used to seeing them in books and on TV (especially since I’m a school teacher and teach about them!) yet it was my first time in real life. Although there were crowds of…
Our Airbnb was in a little residential area about a mile away from the U Street Corridor. We went to this neighborhood almost every day to try different restaurants (most of them were on 14th Street). It was a really nice area with so many restaurants, cafes, and bars. It seemed to be really popular, and it was a little hard to find parking. We met up with one of Nick’s friends who lived on…
We left early in the morning on Easter Monday to make the three and a half hour drive to DC. We live so close but neither of us had ever been, so it was the perfect little vacation. We drove down with some friends from college and met up with more friends from college once we got there! It was such a fun reunion. After dropping our stuff at our airbnb, we headed straight to Georgetown.
When we visited the area, we spent the day with friends exploring downtown Lancaster, and even went on a coffee crawl. But we were actually in the area because a friend gifted us a free night at Amethyst Inn, a bed and breakfast in Adamstown, about 20 minutes outside of Lancaster. It was so cute, with a fireplace inside the room and even a jacuzzi in our bathroom! The owner was…
When we arrived in Paris, we went straight to our Airbnb in Montmartre. Something funny is that we booked the same Airbnb that I had booked with a friend when I came to Paris three years ago! All the streets around our studio apartment were exactly what…