A lifestyle blog by Christina Bluver
Ted and I unexpectedly fell in love with Bratislava. While it’s Slovakia’s capital city, Bratislava still feels a little off the beaten path and that’s exactly why we loved it. It’s a smaller Danube river city that doesn’t receive as many visitors like Vienna or Budapest. Bratislava is small enough to see in one day, […]
Sometimes you end up in the most unexpected of places – read on to see how I got an extra night in Warsaw, Poland after an airline kerfuffle! The Story “Your flights are cancelled.” These are not the words you want to hear a week before your vacation. We had been planning a trip to […]
This Labor Day Weekend was spent up north in Door County, Wisconsin. It’s becoming a tradition that we go up there for the holiday weekend and its something I’ve begun to look forward to each year. Below are some of my favorite things to do in the area – if you want to learn even […]
In early August – my family and I took a trip to upstate New York to visit Adirondack State Park. Here, we have our home away from home – the Adirondack Loj (yes it’s intentionally spelled that way). We’ve been coming here for many years on our family vacations. I’ve spent summers here as a […]
Rome is one of my favorite cities in the world. Ted and I went a few years ago during a post grad school Euro trip we treated ourselves to. We were very budget conscious graduate students who made our Euros go a long way in the Eternal City. But surprisingly, it was one of the […]
Every Spring Ted and I make a point to head out to the small town of Galena, Illinois – one of our favorite day trips from Chicago. Ted and I first visited the historic town when we were in college and have many happy memories there. My favorite being when Ted proposed to me our senior […]