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Category: Destinations

Ali’s Guide To Istanbul

All of my best travel tips for where to eat, stay and visit in Istanbul, Turkey. Is Istanbul on your travel bucket list yet? If not — ohhh friends — it needs to be. ♡ We booked our trip there this past fall on a whim, thanks to some...

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Ali’s Guide To Mexico City

All of my best tips for where to eat, visit and stay in Mexico City (CDMX). Everyone has their favorite places in the world to visit, and Mexico City is hands-down one of mine. I absolutely love this city. ♡♡♡ I love its eclectic, colorful, friendly vibe. I love its...

Amalfi Coast Travel Guide

Ali’s Guide To The Amalfi Coast

A quick recap of our five days on the Amalfi Coast, including all of our best travel tips for where to eat, stay and visit. Somebody pinch me — how is this our life right now?! ♡ A few weeks ago, Barclay and I realized that we had one free weekend...

Lisbon Portugal

Ali’s Guide To Lisbon

All of our best travel tips for where to eat, stay and visit in Lisbon, Portugal. Well, I think this officially wins the award as the latest trip recap I’ve ever posted. (My apologies to those of you who keep asking for our travel recs!)  But this week, I...

What to expect on a Viking ocean cruise

What To Expect On A Viking Ocean Cruise

Lots and lots of details about our recent experience sailing on a Viking Ocean Cruise! Alright guys, cozy up. (Long post alert!)  Today I’m finally sharing all about our recent sail through the Baltic Sea with Viking Ocean Cruises! As I mentioned in my post about spending three days beforehand in Stockholm, this trip...

Stockholm, Sweden

Ali’s Guide To Stockholm

All of our best travel tips for where to eat, stay and visit in Stockholm, Sweden. Hej hej! I’ve finally sorted through a few million trip photos and am excited to tell you all about our trip to Stockholm, Sweden. As many of you saw on Instagram, Barclay and I flew north...

Ali’s Guide To Santorini (and Folegandros)

All of our best travel tips for where to eat, stay and visit in Santorini and Folegandros, Greece. For our very first year as European expats, Barclay and I decided to make the most of our time here and go big by planning one another epic bucket list trips to celebrate our...

Ali’s Guide To Rome (and Naples!)

Highlights from our 5-day long weekend in Rome (including a day trip to Naples!), including our favorite places to eat, things to do, and where we stayed. And of course, a hundred photos. :) Last month, my favorite guy in the world turned 40! So to celebrate, I asked him to...

Ali’s Guide To Madrid

A few highlights from our 3-day weekend in Madrid, including details on where we stayed, what we did, and what we ate. Ever since we moved to Barcelona this past October, our bucket list has been growing with new places that we hope to explore around Europe these next few years. So many places, you guys!...

Our Honeymoon In Mexico!

Hey hey, we’re back from our ??! Well, actually, first of all I’d like to just celebrate the fact that we actually got to go on our honeymoon. As many of you heard, I realized about a week before our wedding that my passport was missing (whoops). But, since we still...

Weekend In NYC

Happy Friday, guys! Life behind the scenes here has been a little crazy lately between work projects, planning this wedding, renovating a kitchen, and getting ready to move. (I know…what crazy girl decided to do all of these things at once?! ?)  BUT, I finally just got around to editing...

Weekend In Omaha

For the last year or so, I’ve been “talking the talk” with friends about how we need to do more weekend road trips to nearby cities in the Midwest. Because after having lived in Kansas City nearly a dozen years now, I’ve realized that I’ve hardly spent any time in our fellow...