We (my husband and I) were living abroad in Budapest when my parents and brother came for a visit. My mother had always wanted to visit Poland, so we decided to road trip there!
Food tour in Krakow.Finding the gnomes in Wroclaw.Walking tour in WroclawEating everything!
Krakow (2 nights): We arrived in Krakow, checked in, and went to get dinner in Market Square. The next day, after sleeping in a little bit, we visited Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory (which is a museum now). In the afternoon, we took a food tour of Krakow, which was definitely a highlight! It was great to get some of the histories while we got to taste all kinds of delicious food and drink.
We wanted to visit the coast of Italy, near the Cinque Terre but not IN the Cinque Terre, to avoid the crowds and high prices. We happened to find an amazing apartment in Portovenere (sometimes known as the sixth Cinque Terre town) and decided to make that our home base.
We were living in Budapest and needed to leave for visa reasons. We'd heard such amazing things about Romania, and decided to road trip through Transylvania!
It was my mother's first trip to France, and as a big World War II buff, we knew she would want to see the D-Day Beaches in Normandy. Bayeux is an ideal base to explore Normandy, and survived much of the war relatively unscathed, meaning it has a well-preserved medieval center. A good place to stay to explore further, and a place to visit in its own right!
This was a special celebration for my father-in-law's 80th birthday, to see his ancestral village of Itri with three generations of our family!
A dream getaway with my husband for a first-time trip to the city of lights!
I chose a weekend getaway in these three locations because Portugal is in close proximity to Spain, and my best friend and I wanted to do a little trip together. We chose to see Lisbon as it is a city destination where we know a few other students studying abroad, and I recommended Sintra as I went there a few years back and absolutely adored it. Nazaré is a bucket list place that I've always wanted to visit to see the world-famous surfing waves and picturesque cliffs. Portugal isn't too big so we could hop around from place to place.
