Category: Journey

Introduction to Christmas Markets

2025-03-02 / James Moore

Inspired by our December 2024 trip to see Alpine Christmas Markets, we recently updated our website to include our first winter trip to Europe. It was in 2015 and we had an incredible experience on Trafalgar’s German Christmas Markets tour. We saw markets in historic medieval cities and others nestled in modern business districts. Visiting Rothenburg, Nürnberg, Dresden, and Berlin we learned not just about holiday traditions, but what life was like in post-WWII East Germany. From the food to the sites, this trip was arguably one of our most impactful since we’ve made multiple trips back to see these festive markets and hope to see more in the future.

Pictures from Frankfurt, Dresden, and Berlin.

Journey to Alpine Christmas Markets

2025-01-05 / Julie Moore

December 2024 saw us embark on our third adventure to visit European Christmas Markets. We joined Insight Vacations Alpine Christmas Markets tour visiting Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France. Some of the cities we were experiencing for a second time (first time in Summer 2017 on an Uniworld Cruise Castles Along the Rhine) while others were inaugural visits.

We met some wonderful people from Australia and the US. Ate some tasty local specialties. Learned about Christmas traditions in the countries we toured. Visited beautiful historical cities. Overall, a spectacular adventure!

Our journey is now live on the website. Check it out!

A Tour of the Emerald Isle

2024-09-02 / James Moore

It has been almost 10 years since we visited Ireland on a Brendan Vacations guided tour. We enjoyed a 9 day clockwise route of the entire island (including Northern Ireland) beginning and ending in Dublin. We tasted whiskey, kissed a castle, encountered a cattle traffic jam, walked in the footsteps of “Giants”, experienced “The Titanic” before its ill-fated journey, and so much more.

The Journeys page now includes “Ireland 2014“. Enjoy!

Cruising the Inside Passage of Alaska

2024-06-29 / James Moore

Another Journey has been completed on the website. Check out our 2013 trip to the Puget Sound and subsequent cruise through the Inside Passage of Alaska. During our trip, we visited some beautiful country while enjoying time with family. We saw Naval destroyers, glaciers, salmon, lumberjacks, and more.

Pike Place Market flower stall in Seattle

Craigdarroch Castle, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Saluti everyone

2024-05-05 / James Moore

Our journey to Italy in 2012 has been uploaded!

Our 15th anniversary trip to Rome, Florence, and Venice has been added to the Journeys page.

Thankfully, we found a document where we had kept notes on the activities and locations we visited each day. We did need to condense the information since James tends to get a bit wordy when writing daily vacation notes; at least the first half of the trip. We hope you enjoy taking the journey to Italy via our pictures!

We are getting closer to our first vacation of 2024. Check back in a month or so to see where this “jaunt” took us.

Until next time – Ciao