I wasn’t sure about a guided D Day tour of the Normandy Beaches because my obsession with the history of the Second World War means I envisioned exploring Normandy on my own. I wanted to wander without a timeline through the area that I had researched, read about, and obsessively watched on Band of Brothers …
Category: Europe, France, Kick-Ass Tours, Life Lessons, Never Forget, Travel Tips, What to See & Do Tags: Day-Trip, France, Life Lessons, Museums, Never forget, Normandy, Tours, WWII
This post explores the Shoes on the Danube Promenade and the Dohány Street Synagogue, and the other must-visit WWII sites of Budapest. Sometimes simplicity makes for the most powerful memorials, and that is true of the Shoes on the Danube Promenade. I returned here multiple times when visiting Budapest. It is a beautiful and somber …
Category: Europe, Historical Walks, Hungary, Never Forget, Travel & History, Travel Stories
This walking tour of Prague is a free and self-guided tour. When I walked this route, it was just two months after my partner died of cancer, and I was walking in his footsteps. It turned out to be a beautiful and wishful walk through loss. When I first decided to travel to all of …
Category: Czech Republic, Europe, Footsteps Tour, Grieving, Historical Walks, Travel Heals, Travel Stories, Travel Tales Tags: Footsteps, footsteps tour, History, Life Lessons, livelikejeff, Prague, Travel
You know you’ve been to the Mad Cool Festival when you wake up in your Madrid hotel room at 2:00 in the afternoon with your pillow covered in glitter and sparkles. In fairness, this particular festival in Madrid doesn’t even start until 6:00 in the evening at the earliest, and it doesn’t wrap up until …
Category: Europe, Girls' Trips, Packing Lists, Spain, Sustainable, Travel Guides, Travel Stories, Travel Style, Travel Things I Love, Travel Tips, What to See & Do Tags: dancing, eco friendly festival, eco music festival, eco travel, Europe, festival life, festival survival guide, glitter, grief, grief and music, livelikejeff, Mad Cool Festival, Madrid, smashing pumpkins, Spain, sparkles, tips and tricks, vampire weekend, zero waste
This tour of Ernest Hemingway’s Madrid is a bit of a pub crawl but, hey, if you’re going to follow in the footsteps of Papa, you’re gonna get drunk. I am a huge fan of getting to know a city by way of wandering and an even bigger fan of Ernest Hemingway (or Don Ernesto …
Category: Europe, Historical Walks, Slideshow Posts, Spain, Travel Tips, What to See & Do Tags: hemingway, historical walks, Madrid, pub crawl, Spain
This Camino de Santiago packing list may just be the best one around. Bold statement, I know. But when you get really familiar with what you should not pack on a 500-mile pilgrimage across Spain, you can speak with confidence about what you should pack. And let me tell you, I made some serious mistakes …