I love to write about the places we visit because so many of them have come to have a special place in our hearts. It’s when a trip becomes a journey, when a story becomes your story, and a town becomes a perfect little bubble. For us, it was the tale of our first trip […]
Travels
Some of the places where we’ve enjoyed Upgrated experiences
Block Island Time
Our second day in Newport gave us a chance to head out on the ferry to Block Island, one of my favorite places on the planet. Since Jen had never been, and I hadn’t been for over 20 years, we took to the seas on a quiet morning not sure what the day had in […]
Roamin’ Around Rome
Day 1 – Ancient Bubbles We had been very lucky to find ourselves in some incredible cities throughout our time in Europe, exploring them on our free nights and weekend at a frantic pace to enjoy some incredible experiences. From London to Paris to Salzburg, these mini adventures kept us on our toes between work […]
Wine-ing Down in Tuscany
We decided long before that our last day at Italy would be spent on a bus tour out to Tuscany, complete with wine and cheese tastings. It was kind of a no-brainer, and a beautiful way to end the trip. The tour was operated by City Wonders (formerly Dark Rome), and this was another great […]
Munich, A Platz in the Sun
Day 1 – Denmark to Munich We arrived in Munich a day later than expected after an impromptu night in Denmark… Checked into the Hotel Rilano, a nice place walking distance from our Munich office where we stole a power nap. We had lunch at the buffet downstairs with some of the local team, then […]
Sleepy Sunday in Salzburg
The Hills Are Alive… With a weekend in Munich (read more) and a successful Saturday spent seeing many of the main attractions, we were exited to get out of town and set our own schedule with the freedom of a car. We had rented a little white BMW Z4 convertible and decided to put the […]
Coping-Hagen in Denmark
If you want to be technical about it, we visited one more country on this European trip than we planned to, courtesy of our friends at Scandinavian Airlines. After leaving Amsterdam on the way to Germany our planned layover in Copenhagen took a turn for the weird when our connecting flight to Munich (read more) wasn’t […]
An AmsterDam Good Time
Day 1 – Meeting Sir Albert Our time in Amsterdam was bookended by some travel adventures, and quite a bit of work to do as well. Our trip in Monday morning started in a Paris downpour, barely making the Thalys train, and worrying the whole time that our luggage wasn’t secure from bandits at the […]
Parks, Picnics, Paris
Day 1 – Better Late than Tower After a day working in our Guildford office in southern England, we caught the Eurostar in the later afternoon to make sure we got to Paris on Friday night in time to enjoy a full Saturday and Sunday break. Given the late sunset in Paris and the proximity […]
London Calling
London has long been one of my favorite cities in the world. From our first family vacation here in 1997, I’ve loved walking the streets, the late bright summer nights, the accents, the tube, and even sometimes the food. I’ve been back a number of times since, always finding a fun new way to take […]