While some people don’t love Bulgaria’s capital city, Sofia spoke to me. I visited the country for the first time in July, but the five days I spent there didn’t feel long enough, so I came back in August for six more. Now I’m dreaming of a third trip to see even more. Until I…
“Why not?” is sometimes the absolute best reason to visit a place, but it can also be the absolute worst reason to make a random side trip to a country you know nothing about. “Why not?” took me to Luxembourg for a weekend, and if those two words brought you to Luxembourg City as well,…
My family arrived at the monastery in Belém on Sunday morning. It was the first thing we did after arriving in Lisbon besides dropping our bags at our hotel. We were exhausted, definitely, but we were also thrilled to be in a new place with nothing to do but experience its culture. The monastery in Belém…
