Category: travel

• What Happens in Rome Stays in Rome?

  Rome was our last stop, a city we had both been to before, but never like this. This time it wasn’t about the landmarks, or museums or ticking things off…

  

• Pisa – A Tilted Icon in the Sun

  While in Florence, I decided to take a small detour in the middle of the Florence days. We took a short train ride through the warm Tuscan countryside, fields stretching…

  

• Florence: A City Built Like a Poem

  Florence is one of the most spectacular cities I have ever seen. From the moment we stepped into the city, it felt like walking into a painting or a Shakespeare…

  

• Venice, Three Nights in a Floating Maze

  We flew to Venice because Barcelona was too expensive, and somehow that decision became one of the best pivots of the trip. After the energy of Madrid, Venice felt like…

  

• Madrid, The City That Chose Us

  We left Lisbon on a night bus to Madrid. Eight long hours across the border, the kind of journey where you try to sleep but never really do. The bus…

  

• Lisbon: Tiles, Trams & Time to Slow Down

  Leaving Portimao and the Algarve had felt like stepping out of a dream. Our legs were tired, our voices were gone, and our bodies were still buzzing from the music.…

  

• Where Music Meets the Algarve

  Albufeira was our first stop, a deliberate pause before the festival energy and chaos kicked in. We landed in the Algarve with nothing urgent to do and nowhere we needed…

  

• From The Algarve to Rome

  In the summer of 2025, a friend and I had planned to go to Afronation in Portugal, nothing more. Just a festival, a few days in the sun, and then…

  

• The Algarve, Portugal

  Albufeira is a place I’ve visited three times in my life: the first time as a rest stop after a festival, the second time as a pre-holiday to a festival…