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Mini Vacation at the Pink Palace in Corfu, Greece

December 3rd, 2013 · Greece · By: Casi

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Vacationing while long term traveling is a must. It’s tiring stuff! Constantly planning, researching, plane trips, long bus rides, and ALL THE WALKING! After a busy 2 weeks in Italy we were ready for a couple days of island relaxation on one of the lesser known Greek Islands, Corfu.

We also needed this relaxation time because we had decided to climb Mount Olympus…less than a week before we actually climbed it. Smart! *insert eery foreshadowing music here* For 3 days we stayed at the Pink Palace, famous for it’s fun parties, beachy goodness, and it’s pink exterior.

Corfu, Greece

Corfu, Greece
The view from our room

We spent 3 days lounging on the beach

Corfu, Greece

Eating gyros

Corfu, Greece

Corfu, Greece

Corfu, Greece
Yes, Greeks eat potatoes (french fries) in their gyros!

We even went on the Pink Palace’s famous booze cruise…not too many pictures from that craziness! You’ll have to visit and see for yourself.

Corfu, Greece

It was the perfect relaxing 3 days before a jam packed week of Greece sightseeing including exploring the Greek Orthodox monasteries of Meteora and a grueling 2 day hike up Mount Olympus. Stay tuned…

♥Casi


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Let’s Take A Stroll Through The Canals Of Venice

November 6th, 2013 · Italy · By: Casi

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The first question everyone asks us about our trip is, “What was your favorite place?” My #1 is Bali. Greg’s is Chiang Mai. But a very close second for both of us is Venice, Italy. To me, all of Italy was just amazing. But Venice. Ohhhhhhhh Venice. I dream about this city often.

Venice, Italy

Besides the fact that it is a beautiful city built on water with canal lined streets, the buildings are so colorful, the food is SO good, the people are strong and blunt but so nice, the small alleys are so quaint, and don’t get me started on spritzes!

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12 Ridiculously Hilarious Leaning Tower of Pisa Fails

October 30th, 2013 · Italy · By: Casi

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While we were in Florence we decided to take a day trip to Pisa so we could see that oh so famous leaning tower. This ended up being one of my favorite days of our trip because who doesn’t like watching people fail all day long!? Not sad or painful or mean fails! I’m not sadistic! Geez! Just really really ridiculously hilarious fails, ala Buzzfeed. Ok, some of those Buzzfeed “Biggest Kid Fails Of All Time” do look a little painful, but the fails I’m about to show you from the Leaning Tower of Pisa are more painful to the brain because you just can’t believe how stupid people are willing to look in public for a picture. Including us. Except we nailed it!

Leaning Tower Of Pisa, Italy

Leaning Tower Of Pisa, Italy
I’m guessing she is going for the dinosaur eating the tower pose?

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How Do You Convince Your Husband To Take You To Florence, Italy? Scotch.

October 18th, 2013 · Italy · By: Casi

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Italy seems to be the place everyone and their mom (well my mom for sure) has asked us questions about. Mainly, where should we go in Italy? When? And the biggest question: do you have some special power to convince my significant other to take me there? My special power comes in pictures, just show him/her all these lovely pictures + a glass or 2 (or 3 or 4) of their fave happy beverage + memorize their credit card number and you will be in Italy in no time!

The when is easy, not during summer when it’s balls hot! Preferably, May or September for prime warmness and minimal crowds. The where: Rome, Amalfi Coast, Venice, and I hear Cinque Terre is incredibile. But I never put Florence on that list, and I feel really horrible about that now that I have looked at our pictures from there. Florence was gosh darn impressive! The Duomo, the parks, the food and leather market, and the perfect sunset from the Ponte Vecchio. How could I leave out such a gorgeous city. Bad traveler, bad!

Be sure to show these little beauts to your hubs tonight! Don’t forget the scotch!

Florence, Italy
Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore (a.k.a. Il Duomo di Firenze) Our hotel, Hotel Costantini, was right outside of the Duomo so we got to walk past it a lot!

Florence, Italy
Walking up the steps to the top we couldn’t take our eyes off this fresco painted by Giorgio Vasari and Federico Zuccari in 1579.

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Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now? Answer: STAY!!!

October 9th, 2013 · Italy · By: Casi

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WARNING: Annoying #travelgirlproblems ahead

One of the hardest things about traveling is deciding how long you should stay at a destination. Everyone has a different opinion about cities, and I can come up with about a million and a half instances on our trip where we stayed too long or not long enough in a location based on advice from friends and family. We tried to combat that by not planning too far ahead so we could leave or stay in a city as long (or short) as we wanted. That gets a bit tough when you travel to popular (a.k.a. expensive) areas. Hotel and hostel prices are hiked up like crazy and get booked months in advanced.

This happened to us after Rome when we decided last minute to head down to the Amalfi Coast before we moved onto Florence. We originally weren’t going to go to the Amalfi Coast because it was just so gosh darn expensive. But after many aggressive emails and Facebook messages from friends and family who said if we didn’t go they would basically disown us, we decided to squeeze in 1 night there. We found a reasonably “cheap” hotel for $106 and were rewarded with one of the best views in the whole wide world.

Cruising Along the Amalfi Coast, Italy

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