Checking into Hotel Granvia was bittersweet. It was our final night in Europe and we were fortunate enough to be spending it in a 19th century palace. Commissioned in the late 1800s by the owners of the Bank of Barcelona, it became one of the few palaces in Barcelona’s city center. It was weird to think of a […]
Arriving in Barcelona after dark, the airport bus dropped us off in Plaça de Catalunya. We were worried about finding our way in the dark, so we foolishly hopped in a cab. Two minutes later, the cab stopped. What?? We were here already? It was literally just a couple of blocks up the road. We paid the (luckily) […]
I had never been to Mexico until this past September. Yup, that’s right. The one place where even all of my non-traveling friends had visited, I hadn’t. And you know why? Because Cancun had never interested me. I honestly probably wouldn’t have visited Cancun if it hadn’t been the destination for the annual travel blogger’s […]
Next to London, Venice was another city that we felt money constantly draining from our wallets. With no convenient city passes or hop-on hop-off buses to help save us some cash, it came down to good ole’ fashioned budgeting. To allow for a bit of splurging, we chose to stay at a hostel further out instead of an overpriced […]
After accidentally walking into The Mark Luxury Hotel Prague, I knew that our actual hotel, Perla Hotel, would have big shoes to fill. Walking into the hotel I was immediately relieved as I loved the decor. Although the words scribbled across the large glass panels read, “Perla”, between that, the bold red and yellow colors and the design […]