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Exploring Lisbon: Old Carmo Convent Remains and The Best Portuguese Egg Tarts!!

August 23, 2026 by hollyGS

I woke up pretty early, but we did not leave the room until after 11:30am because I wanted to check into our flight the following day. We had a few coffees and some toast with cheese as we waited, drawing in our sketch books as well. It was actually sort of nice to have a bit of time to relax after a lot of moving around on this trip. When we finally did check into our flight we couldn’t get […]

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A Perfect Day in Lisbon: Food, Views, and Street Art

August 9, 2026 by hollyGS

We had a breakfast of toast and Gouda slices with a few coffees on our little red chairs looking down on the narrow streets below and the people going by. Jives had local cucumber and tomato that we bought at the mart the day before. We headed out to see Lisbon in the daylight around 10am ish. We decided to not really have a plan, goal or direction and just wander around the steep roadways in the old quarter of […]

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Delicious Risotto and Ferry Adventures in Venice (Leaving Italy and Flying to Lisbon Portugal!)

July 19, 2026 by hollyGS

We woke up at 7am and tried to eat all of our remaining food, the bread and cheese etc before packing up and leaving the room by 10am. We walked with our bags to a cafe nearby and had a cappuccino. I also had a lovely mushroom risotto. The risotto was warm and comforting. We then walked to the ferry stop a few canals over from our accommodation and waited for the ferry to the airport. The cost was 18 […]

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Exploring Venice: A Day of Churches, Crypts and Cappuccinos (Off The Beaten Path Venice Itinerary)

July 5, 2026 by hollyGS

We set out at 8:00am to go to the Ponte de Rialto to get Jives a rap take without the crowds. He had a coffee in our room before quickly heading out to the bridge. We got two amazing takes at the bridge and then I helped four asian tourists get a group photo in front of the bridge. We crossed over the bridge, borrowing a photographer’s spot to get some epic shots from the other (north ) side of […]

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Early Morning Adventures: Discovering Venice’s Beauty Without the Tourists!

June 14, 2026 by hollyGS

We woke up pretty early to try to see the very touristy spots before too many tourists woke up and the tours arrived. First we headed to the Ponte Rialto, a beautiful white marble bridge over the busy Rialto. This bridge gets soooo busy later on in the day, but we had it mostly to ourselves. We then walked to the Piazza de San Marco THE most touristy spot in Venice by far, but there were relatively few people there! […]

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Best European Train Journey from Munich Germany to Venice Italy (through the Alps!)

June 7, 2026 by hollyGS

We had set our alarms for 6am to catch the train from Munchen HBF to Venice at 7:32am. It was a chilly morning walk to the station as the sun was still an hour from rising. We bought two coffees and two pretzels and sat down at our track two to eat our breakfast and wait almost an hour for our train to Venice Italy, passing through Austria on the way. The train arrived thirteen minutes before the departure and […]

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A Perfect Day in Munich: From Breakfast to Beer Gardens

May 24, 2026 by hollyGS

We left the room fairly late, around 9:00am and headed a few blocks down to have breakfast at a little cafe. We both got a nice bun with cheese and egg on it, mine had lettuce and tomato too. We also ordered a coffee each. We then slowly walked to the old town, seeing some lovely street art along the way. In Marienplatz we arrived just as the glockenspiel was doing its hourly thing, so we stopped and observed this […]

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Adventures in Munich: Rainy Day Sightseeing

May 17, 2026 by hollyGS

We got up at 7am and packed up all our stuff, heading to the train station at 8am after a few coffees. The walk took about 30 minutes from our accommodation, it was drizzling lightly. We arrived at the train station in Nuremberg at 8:30am and bought a coffee at a shop and proceeded to track number nine where our train to Munich would arrive at 9:10am. We had a few of the sandwiches I had made and packed the […]

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Exploring Nuremberg: A Day of Unique Discoveries. City Walls and 🍺Beer Halls! 🍻(Best city in Germany?)

May 3, 2026 by hollyGS

We woke up fairly late as we had had quite a few early mornings in a row. I made coffee for myself and Jives joined me at around 9am. We made some toast with smoked cheeses and had a lovely slow morning. We didn’t set out on the day’s adventure until around 11:30am, late for us. We started our day’s wandering off at the wall that surrounds the old town of Nuremberg. We walked around the bottom of the walls […]

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