Well, I’ve taken quite the little hiatus, haven’t I? I was watching a makeup tutorial earlier today and the person was talking about bloggers/YouTubers apologizing for taking so long in between posts. The gist of it was that nobody is hugging their computer screens, waiting for an update, and I’m about 99% certain that that’s the case with all of you. I hope that this post comes as a nice little surprise in your afternoon.
I also got the notification that yesterday was this blog’s second birthday. Yay! Two years of subpar blogging under my belt! I guess that’s something to be proud of, amiright?
So when I last talked to y’all, I was about to leave for Europe. The trip was amazing. We went to Kotor, Montenegro; Corfu, Mykonos, and Santorini, Greece; Dubrovnik, Croatia; and Venice, Italy. It was unreal. I can’t believe places this pretty even exist in real life.
There was a lot more hiking in this trip than anticipated. For Kotor, we took a trail up to the city fortress, which was a crazy-long hike in the heat. The view was worth it. You could see the entire city and the coast and it was just incredible. The old city itself wasn’t big at all, but not in a bad way. And the people there were just so nice. If I could go anywhere else again, I’d probably pick Kotor (or Dubrovnik, but we’ll get there).
We mostly did Corfu as a shopping day, so I won’t bore you with the details. Interestingly, Santorini was a letdown. I was most excited to go there out of all of the destinations since that’s the one you hear about the most. At least, that’s the one I’d heard the most about. The island itself was… depressing, probably due to the recent economic struggles with Greece. Still a beautiful place, of course, but it was sad to see all of the abandoned houses over the island. Mykonos was my favorite destination in Greece, even though it involved more hiking. My family just has this tendency to search for the highest ground possible in every location we visit. We also went beachin’ in Mykonos, which I loved.
Dubrovnik was seriously everything I dreamed of and more. Also, there was a wine tour, so that was cool. The Old City is where they film the King’s Landing scenes in Game of Thrones, and I’m such a GoT geek. I was nerding out the entire time we were there. Croatia also still has its own money, so I just happen to have 50 kuna hanging out in my wallet (it’s like 8 bucks).
We rounded out the trip by spending a few days in Venice. Our apartment there was GORGEOUS. We used booking.com and it was like $300 for the three nights we stayed, which we split between the four of us. Seriously, it was so much better than a hotel. Venice is an interesting city. I liked the lack of cars, but it was nearly impossible to get anywhere since we didn’t know where we were going and there’s no way to go in straight lines with the canals. I’d probably visit there again, but only with someone who knew the city better than I did.
All in all, it was a successful trip. Now we’re back to the grind and I’ll hopefully have more useful things to say.
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