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Travel itinerary: One day in Edinburgh

Rick and I were so excited to finally, finally visit Scotland in 2023, seeing as we originally booked the trip in 2018 for a 2020 travel date! We went to Scotland on our trip to England, Scotland, and Ireland with EF Go Ahead Tours and our Scotland portion was concentrated on Edinburgh. Since this was

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Travel bucket list: Madrid

Madrid

It’s official! We’re returning to Spain this year! We both fell in love with Spain when we went to Barcelona five years ago and have been working on finding the right time to return and continue our exploration of this fabulous travel destination. And we’ve found it. We’ll be back in Spain this fall and

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Travel itinerary: A weekend in Paris

You have no idea how excited I was to finally take Rick to Paris, one of my favorite cities in the world! When we had planned our England, Scotland, and Ireland trip with Go Ahead, I knew we had to find a way to add a few days before the trip to visit Paris on

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One day in Dublin

We were supposed to cross Dublin (and other places in Ireland) off our bucket list in 2020. That did not happen, but it was okay as we finally got to visit the Emerald Isle this past September when the world was back to normal. It was a whirlwind trip as we explored France, England, Scotland,

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Best Dublin photography locations

Dublin Temple Bar

Dublin is a city we were so excited to see and we wish we had had more time in the city to explore it further, but on our trip there we only had about two days in the city. While we still have more to see (and photograph!), we did stop at a few popular

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A long weekend in San Francisco

Rick and I recently had an opportunity to return to one of my favorite cities: San Francisco! I was headed there for work and was thinking about staying an extra day anyway so we decided to make a long weekend out of the trip and have Rick fly out on his own to join me.

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Review: Ghost Tours of Quebec

Quebec City at night

I’m lucky my family is as weird as I am! Rick has come to love me booking ghost tours when we travel but I don’t have to convince my family to book them – they do it themselves! Since it’s spooky season, I thought it would be fun to revisit a ghost tour we did

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Review: Paris Dark City Secrets Walking Tour

Paris, France

It’s officially spooky season! So it’s time to talk about all things haunted and scary – and one of my favorite things to do this time of year is ghost tours! Okay, I’ll admit anytime of year is the right time of year for a ghost tour. It doesn’t take much to convince me to