Goes to Paris

I haven't forgotten about my wanderlusting, in fact i've got a few trips queued up over the next few months that i'm excited about. But I've been taking some time to enjoy being a newlywed and working on this whole being-a-responsible-adult thing works. But I had to post about this:

 

Do you know Jordan at Oh Happy Day? She is super cute and has the most precious family ever. Well they decided to up and leave San Francisco a few months ago to move to PARIS for a year. (jealoussssssss....) But! This is super awesome lady has put together a giveway - 7 days for 2 people (hotel and airfare covered) in her new city of Paris! Ahhh amazing! You know I've been once and had a blast, but a) I need to go back and spend more days there and b) I need to do Paris as a fancy lady, not as a backpacker! Jordan will personally be your host for a day or two and show you all her favorite spots, as a local. Um, yes please!

so ENTER the contest! (and then take me as your plus one if you win =D)

italia

Venice via ACL

Milan via ACL

Rome via ACL

Naples via ACL

Florence via ACL

So....is it my turn yet? Miss this place.

Charms and Pleasures

Paris Farewell from the New York Times. Via.

Such a lovely article. I must admit I'm more of an Anglophile. But nonetheless. Don't worry, the travel bug is alive and well. I have several getaway options up my sleeve, let's see how much cash I can scrape together this summer...

86th Floor

{photo by me - ESB}

sigh. I'm ready to go back.

showers

In the words of Liz Lemon: I want to go to there

{found here via here}

Bruce Munro's light installation at Salisbury Cathedral. Fun Fact: it was officially lit on my birthday. Visit the link for more details and photos.

live the language

these videos are from the EF language schools. so adorable!


EF - Live The Language - Paris from Albin Holmqvist on Vimeo.


EF - Live The Language - London from Albin Holmqvist on Vimeo.

when will you realize

hmmm sometimes I need to remember this:


I just happened to find Billy Joel song set to Breakfast at Tiffany's. Love the song, love the movie.
It was rough day. This is helping turn it around. Also helping, drinks and dinner at BJs with the boy and one of his awesome friends later tonight.

free passes

While the opportunity to see priceless works of art in person will always be a cherishable experience, not all of us have the time or money to travel to some of these museums.

Enter Google Art Project.

The Google Street View of the museum world. Not only can you enjoy virtual tours of some of the best and most famous musuems in the world, but the photography is such high-resolution quality that you can actually zoom in close enough to see individual brush strokes.

{super zoomed in section of Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodigal Son"}

What will they think of next?!
(via audrey hepburn complex)

I'm Still Standing

So remember that jetsetter site I told you about? Where they have specially discounted vacations for members? (let me know if you want in, I'll hook you up!). I was scrolling through their weekly email of various locations where I would like to be in lieu of working 12 hour days. Paris, Hawaii, Elton John's Oscar Party...WAIT WHAT? for reals? I don't have to be invited?? Score!

{via jetsetter}

Um I'm kind of an Elton John fan. I LOVE him (but as Fiance says, "he doesn't love you back" lol). Seeing Elton perfom live is kind of on my life list. I was super sad when he ended his show in vegas before I could make it out there. So I've been holding out on Fiance becoming famous and getting invited to the oscars and then Elton inviting us to his party, because we'd be awesome like that.

But now thanks to Jetsetter, apparently you can just buy your way into that stuff. Problem #1, the oscars are the day after the wedding, so we'll be on a plane to new york. (minor detail right?). Problem #2, right now you can only preview dates, you can't see prices yet. So it probably still costs like a million dollars. So I guess that means no Elton, THIS time around. maybe next year? ;)

Ok excited rant over. this counts as a travel post right? oh well it's my blog and I do what I want!

romanticized all out of proportion

I once again have travel on my horizons. This intro is a bit how I expect to feel about my next adventure.



honeymoon here I come.

p.s. after discovering "Rhapsody in Blue" in my history of Jazz Music class, I absolutely adore it.