First of all, I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and a wonderful 2021!! The expectations are huge for this year, so let's hope it can bring back some sense of normalcy to the world. A major part of that would be the ability for us to safely and freely travel. This has been missed more by some than others, and has been greatly missed by me and my family. We have traveled often within the US over the years, but we started exploring international travel just a couple of years ago and absolutely loved it.
Our first trip to Europe was in the summer of 2018 for my older daughter's high school graduation gift. We went to Paris for a couple of days and then to Spain for a week where we spent time in Barcelona, Madrid and Seville. It was an amazing trip and convinced all of us we wanted to go back and also explore lots of other places. It was my first trip to Europe ever at age 47 and I was very happy to finally have the experience. We visited so many beautiful places and learned so much.
Paris
Barcelona
Madrid
Seville
My older daughter studied abroad her first semester of sophomore year in college which was in 2019. She was in the Netherlands and was able to visit a different country almost every weekend for the 3 months she was there. It was an incredible experience for her. My mom, younger daughter and I went to visit her for a week during her fall break and made the most of our time there. We met up with her in Dublin first and then returned to Paris for a couple of days followed by Amsterdam and then finished the week in the town of Well (where her program was located in the Netherlands...at a castle!) This was another amazing trip with the added bonus of spending Halloween at Disneyland Paris. As big fans of Disney and Halloween, this was a special treat!
Dublin
Paris
Amsterdam
Kasteel Well
I was also very fortunate to travel to Italy in January of 2020 for a ballroom dance competition in Milan. We had a day off from dancing and traveled to Florence which was beautiful. I will share more from that trip next week.
We had planned to explore Asia next, with a trip to Thailand and Singapore for my younger daughter's high school graduation gift...the trip was booked for August of 2020...enough said. High hopes for 2021 and the ability to take that trip and maybe some others too!✈️🤞🏻
