Before Jeremiah and I decided to have kiddos, we wanted to explore the world a bit. We are so incredibly lucky to have taken our European vacation in 2019, for so many reasons. If we hadn’t done it when we did, I wonder if we ever would have due to Covid and babies. First let me say, we are cruisers. Yeah yeah, it might be an “old person” thing to cruise, but guess what? We are kind of old at this point! Regardless, I swear by cruises and our Mediterranean cruise definitely did not disappoint.
Two weeks at sea.
We spent nearly 2 weeks traveling around Italy. We started in Barcelona and made our way around to Venice, hitting the Côte d’Azur, or the French Riviera, Frejus, Rome, Vatican City, Amalfi, Naples, Pompeii, Sicily, and Croatia along the way. When I say it was a trip of a lifetime, it truly was. From the best meal of the trip at Bar Del Pla in Barcelona, to the Blue Grotto in Sicily and the intricate hillside town of Amalfi, it’s nearly impossible to choose a favorite stop; however, if pressed I would have to say Venice.
Venice.
I know Venice is one of those love-it or hate-it places, but it was exactly as I pictured it in my mind. I loved everything about it. Ironically, when I think of Venice I think of rain, and I don’t know if you’d call it lucky or not, but the two days we spent there were rain-soaked and I was so happy about it. The rain pitter-pattering on the umbrella as we traipsed up and down lose-your-way canals, was just so idyllic. Venice also has the uncanny ability to turn anyone into a photographer – it is legitimately impossible to take a bad photo there. Everything is just so soaked in uniqueness that each shutter click captures something unbelievably beautiful.
I can still hear the rain on that umbrella.
Until we can travel again, I’ll just continue looking back at the millions of photos I took and dreaming about the day that we are able to take Tucker back to Europe with us.
