We took an early early ferry from Rialto Bridge to the Venice airport before the sun even rose. We met a mom and her two daughters who were all from England on the ferry and had such a nice conversation with them during the hour we sailed to the airport. I'd imagine the daughters were…
We said a sad goodbye to Tuscany and promised ourselves we'd return one day with a rental car to explore more: vineyards, hiking, etc. (We're dreaming of my siblings and their spouses all returning with us for a week in the hills! <3) Somehow we managed to make all our buses back into Firenze (the…
Tuscany! You were astonishing and everything we ever dreamed you would be. It seems I always have some long ridiculous story of how we got to our locations. So here goes another one: We left Rome in the morning around 10am, walked to the train station and caught the first train we could get out…
We took a 40 minute ferry from Amalfi to Salerno and then trained from Salerno to Rome. It was a short two-hour train ride, and it was such a relief not to go to an airport again. After 18 flights in our first month, we are quite content to not go through security lines or…
We flew from Amsterdam to Naples with a layover in Hamburg, Germany. Our flight into Naples was delayed an hour, but it wasn't stressful. Naples in the closest airport to Amalfi, about 43 miles away. Up until 2017, there was no direct way to get to Amalfi, without doing a number of transportation switches (starting…
I feel like I should give an update on Robbie and my hearts and how we are doing. We've been away from home now for over a month. Before this, neither of us had ever studied abroad or taken any extravagant trips, so this is definitely by far the longest either of us have spent…
I think it was always going to be tough for the location that came after Lofoten to have a fair shot. I want to make sure I give Stockholm a fair judgement, but I also want to be honest! We arrived in Stockholm right as it was getting dark the first night. When we went…
We left Copenhagen on an evening flight at 7pm for a layover in Oslo, Norway, then went a lot further north to Bodø (pronounced Boo-duh) for another crappy overnight layover from midnight on until our 4:55AM flight into Leknes. Lofoten is the name of this archipelago in the far Northwest of Norway, and Leknes is…
We arrived in Copenhagen and had miscalculated our arrival and didn't have a stay for our first night in the city. So last minute we booked one of the only airbnb's still available even close to the city center. It was about an hour journey by public transport. We hopped on a metro, then hopped…
We couldn't have chosen a more opposite place of the Faroe Islands to visit next. This week was originally unaccounted for, so we spent an evening in the Faroes deciding where we would spend it, booking everything with less than a week before we would arrive. We looked at Prague, Croatia, Germany, etc. but either…
Robbie + Chase 