(View of the Portsmouth Fish Pier, photos by Maggie Overfelt Valentine) Guest blogger Maggie Overfelt Valentine, who has recently shared photos with Travelogged of her honeymoon to Maui and Kauai, spent a weekend at the end of the summer in the seaside town of Portsmouth, NH. When I went to Kennebunkport, Maine, last summer, I […]
When I visited the Smallest House in Great Britain, which is located in Conwy, Wales, I thought it was very small indeed. But as for The Ugly House near the picturesque town of Betws-y-Coed, Wales? Well, I don't think it's ugly at all!
Connecticut is full of charming towns. Yet as cute and authentic as these towns may be, they usually don’t offer much to do. That’s what separates Lakeville, CT, from the rest. Lakeville is famous for — you guessed it — its lake. Lake Wononscopomuc, which everyone refers to as The Lakeville Lake, is the deepest […]
If you're in need of a crash course in American history, don't crack open your old text book. Just head to Philadelphia where around two hours of intense sightseeing can give you a greater understanding of how our country began as well as a large dose of patriotic pride. Even more good news? Most of […]
(Photos by Amanda Lobell) When it's your first time in Paris, you're under a lot of pressure. You have to see the Louvre, Notre Dame, Luxembourg Gardens, Montmartre — and that's usually just in the first 24 hours. But when you've visited Paris (or any other great city) several times before, you can relax and […]
San Gimignano earned a spot on our Tuscany day trip itinerary with its nickname: The Medieval Manhattan. As a lifelong New Yorker, I’m always curious to see anything that’s compared to New York. San Gimignano is a small town, but it’s famous for its tall stone towers (pictured above) look like skyscrapers. Only 14 remain, […]
On our day trip through Tuscany, we wanted to visit two of the regions of greatest hits: Siena and San Gimignano. After a great lunch at La Bottega in Volpaia, we took the windy backroads to Siena, which is famous for its enormous fan-shaped Piazza del Campo (the mouth of which is pictured above). For […]
When I was planning my trip through Italy, I wanted to include Tuscany. But as there never seems to enough time to see everything I want, I figured that I would just do Tuscany as a day trip from Florence. I kept hearing “You can’t do Tuscany in a day,” but I didn’t understand why. […]
Deciding whether or not to do a day trip out of the city when you're only in Rome for a limited amount of time can be tough. But a good friend who also happens to be a superb traveler recommended that we see Ostia Antica, a well-preserved ancient Roman port town that's not too far […]
Turkey is hardly the camel capital of its region, but I was secretly hoping to see at least one during my trip. There's camel wrestling in Selcuk and Mulga, but I wasn't going to either place. And I didn't need to see the animals fighting each other. I just wanted to see a camel doing, […]
