Monday, February 6th, 2012

Europe: As Viewed From Above

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 [...]

Travelers’ Night In — Adventure Travel!

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 [...]

Switzerland Adventure: THE BUS RIDE FROM HELL

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 [...]

Travelers’ Night In

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 [...]