You can add “climbing the Alps” to the ever-growing list of things I never thought I’d do — but ended up doing anyway! One great thing about TBU was that post-conference blog trips were included in the price of attending the conference. There were lots of trips to choose from, and I ended up on — naturally! [...]
Whenever I visit a new city, there are a few things I like to do: Stroll around the different neighborhoods. Find an awesome local bar. Climb to a high point and view the city from above. Here are several cities in Europe that I was lucky enough to view from above: Bruges, Belgium, as viewed [...]
This week’s round of Travelers’ Night In, the interactive Twitter discussion for avid travelers and travel lovers, focused on adventure travel! As always, ten questions were asked, people responded while tagging their tweets #TNI, and learned quite a bit about some new destinations! Here are the questions for the week: Q1. What is the most [...]
The other day, I received an email from my friend Marie, a former coworker of mine. She’s getting married in December and she’s looking for a winter honeymoon destination. Here are the details: We are able to travel between December 18 or 19, 2010 and January 2, 2011 and I think we want to go [...]
Florence, Italy, is a major study abroad hub. Interlaken, Switzerland, is the adventure sports capital of Europe. So it’s no surprise that an independent operator arranged a weekend college bus trip from Florence to Interlaken! I was so excited to go to Interlaken — I wanted to challenge myself and do the scariest, most extreme [...]
This week, I participated in Travelers’ Night In for the first time. This event is an online gathering of travel tweeters who discuss a number of travel topics from 3:30-5:00 PM EST on Thursdays. The event was started by the Go girls: @ZipSetRachel, @GoApril and @GoSaraBeth. This week’s event was hosted by two of my [...]
I don’t know about you, but I have been SO into the Olympics this year! I’ve made up for being a total absentee from Athens 2004 and Torino 2006 with being a rabid devotee for the past two games, watching every night. Interesting and innovative venues are often chosen for the Winter Olympics. Take Salt [...]
