2 Days in Pisa: Itinerary to Maximize Your Visit [2025]

2 Days in Pisa: Itinerary to Maximize Your Visit [2025]

Pisa may be best known for its iconic Leaning Tower of Pisa, but there’s more to the Tuscan city than its famous crooked tower.  Home to lovely medieval architecture, the world’s first university botanical garden, great museums, and amazing Tuscan restaurants, Pisa is a perfect Italian city to explore on a weekend trip — especially…

3 Days in Marrakech: Itinerary to Maximize Your Trip [2025]

3 Days in Marrakech: Itinerary to Maximize Your Trip [2025]

From the loud warbling of the call to prayer and the persistent calls of the men who run stalls in the souks constantly striking your ears, Marrakech is a cacophony and a shock to the senses. The sights, smells, and sounds of Marrakech are deeply layered, and not always pleasant: the pungent smell of incenses…

Great Smoky Mountains Itinerary: 2 Days of Hikes & Eats (2025)

Great Smoky Mountains Itinerary: 2 Days of Hikes & Eats (2025)

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is absolutely a must-see destination for any lover of the great outdoors, and the numbers are there to prove it. This is the most visited national park in the country, winning by a landslide, pun only slightly intended. Knowing all this, when I was planning my road trip through the…

2 Days in Verona: Itinerary for A Dreamy City Escape (2025)

2 Days in Verona: Itinerary for A Dreamy City Escape (2025)

Verona is ironically known for all the wrong things — and forgotten for many of its best merits. Like that whole Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet thing? Well, the setting is technically right, but that’s about where the similarities end… any of the supposed “houses” that are related to it, are actually not connected at all!…

The Ultimate 2 Days in Catania Itinerary (2025 Update)

The Ultimate 2 Days in Catania Itinerary (2025 Update)

Catania is a captivating Sicilian city right at the foot of Mount Etna, deserving of more attention than it gets. While it’s best known for its gorgeous Baroque architecture and charming historical town, Catania also has stunningly gorgeous views of the spectacular (and spectacularly active) volcano. When living in Italy, I made several trips to Sicily, and…

Taormina Itinerary: Make the Most of Two Days in Taormina (2025)

Taormina Itinerary: Make the Most of Two Days in Taormina (2025)

At the top of a hill overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, Taormina is a small but picturesque town on Sicily’s eastern coast.  Home to a spectacular ancient Greek theater, gorgeous coastal views, lovely beaches, and the imposing sight of Mount Etna in the background, Taormina is certainly a town worth exploring.   I visited Taormina twice on…

Annecy Itinerary: 2 Days to Discover the Venice of the Alps (2025)

Annecy Itinerary: 2 Days to Discover the Venice of the Alps (2025)

With its brightly-painted narrow streets set on a pristine crystalline lake with a backdrop of majestic mountains, Annecy is the ultimate scenic vacation destination, in the heart of the beautiful Haute-Savoie region of France. Annecy truly has it all: a picture-perfect old town with historic neighborhoods crisscrossed by charming canals, all set in a beautiful…

Faroe Islands Itinerary: A 5 Day Faroe Islands Road Trip Route [2025]

Faroe Islands Itinerary: A 5 Day Faroe Islands Road Trip Route [2025]

On a far-flung cluster of 18 of the most impossibly beautiful islands, how do you prioritize what to see when literally everything is stunning? How do you make a Faroe Islands itinerary that sees the very best of what this magical place has to offer… but without doing the exact same thing as everyone else…