My first town I covered in this series of Hudson Valley weekend getaways from NYC was the adorable town of Hudson, which is fantastic for antique shopping, artisanal food, and wandering little streets. This week, I want to tell you guys about a hidden gem for a wonderfully quiet and peaceful weekend getaway: The Stewart House in Athens, NY...

Tis the season! It's been almost alarmingly warm here in NYC, with temperatures in the high 50's and even up in the 60's, but my holiday spirit is turned up full blast. Holiday spirit is currently very much needed everywhere in the world right now. The amount of...

Being in New York City can be a bit of a bubble- you sadly forget that an outside world exists sometimes. But while the city has endless things to offer, sometimes you need to get away from the hustle of it all and enjoy some nature- particularly during seasons as gorgeous as fall and winter...

There are two sides of forgiveness; sometimes we only remember one, sometimes we don't remember either of them. What are they? Forgiveness for yourself AND forgiveness for others...

For some reason, feeling and knowing deep down that you are enough is one of the hardest things to learn. Even the most self-assured confident person will feel this self-doubt from time to time. Especially in a day and time when the social media filter can make your life feel like it doesn't

I've said this many a time before, but it holds true: you don't know what it's truly like in someone else's shoes. Everyone has their own battles and circumstances. It's much easier to impose your advice and opinion on things when you're looking at something through a window- it's much harder to live it on the other side and things are always more complicated than they may seem. Just because you've been through the woods doesn't mean you know another's journey through them. With all these recent horrific events going...

With the holidays drawing near and the damp, chilly weather, all I want to do is cozy up. This nesting feeling is calling for a lot of reflection on what's going on in my life and how I'm feeling. So, what is going on?

Rome was never on top of the excitement chart in terms of the cities in Italy I wanted to visit. "Too touristy," I thought. I had heard about the headaches of the lines at the Colosseum, the summer tourism crowds, and so on, so I was braced for having to hold back my impatient New Yorker self. But the charm of Rome turned out to be in all the in-betweens. Of course, we...

Happy Halloween weekend! 

The leaves have almost fully turned, yet it's hard to believe that the end of October is already here. The holiday season is about to come at us with full force, and I feel nowhere prepared. I've got 3 trips between now and Thanksgiving, so it really seems like time is flying by. Speaking of...

After seeing the beauty of Switzerland in the mixture of urban and nature in Zürich, and then the smaller mountainside villages in Malans and Chur, I wasn't sure how much more this stunning country could charm me. Then we arrived in the little town named Lugano...

When compiling this roundup, I noticed that I had bookmarked a lot of links on lady power this week. Or, to use the word that some people have an unfortunate misunderstanding of: FEMINISM.

So, I decided to make this a special edition of Favorite Friday Finds: #LadyBoss edition. 

Nobody is a fool here. We all know the duality of social media. The real life that occurs offscreen, and the (usually) heavily filtered, perfect version that appears on our Instagram pages. Lately there's been an uprising in making a point of criticizing the too "perfect" Instagram accounts- a hilarious...

After landing on our flight from New York, we had a few short hours to kill in Milan before having to catch our train to Zürich. Milan is typically known for being a smaller metropolitan city, that is mostly a hub for business and shopping. It also has a reputation for being a bit anticlimactic. Most people say that a day or...

When I realized that we were going to have to trim our time in Florence down to just one day, my face looked like the the really sad, depressed emoji. During college, I was supposed to study abroad in this city, but due to life circumstances, I had to drop out of the program last minute. So, Florence always held a special place on my bucket list as a city I couldn't miss.

Only 24 hours in one of the most popular European cities? We were on a mission to do it all, and...

When boyfriend and I settled on Italy and Switzerland as the countries we were headed to for our Eurotrip, I didn't know much about Switzerland. He had been before and had talked my ear off about how gorgeous the entire country is, how wonderful the people are, and the general lifestyle and culture. While I didn't doubt him, I certainly had no idea how hard I was going to fall in love with Switzerland-- particularly, with the city of Zürich...

Hiking in Switzerland. There's something about the sound of that sentence that conjures up images of lush green hills, Heidi, farm animals, and mountaintops. Well, let me tell you- I had a faint inkling of what the experience would be like, and the real thing far surpasses anything you could imagine...

Happy Friday, everyone! Oh, this week has been quite the frenzied hurricane. Settling back in to your usual routine and work schedule after travels always throws you for a little loop, and this time seemed to be a...

When I was asking my friends for recommendations on must-do's in New Orleans, it turned into a list of must...eats. t's no secret that New Orleans is a culinary destination, and I don't think my stomach was quite ready for this. Correction: my stomach was most definitely not ready for the onslaught of foods that I...