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...

New Orleans has always been lingering around the top of my U.S. travel bucket list. From what I had heard and seen, it's a vibrantly colorful city full of culture, soul, and food like you couldn't imagine. Well, now that I'm here, I can definitely say that...

My goodness, how is it already the end of August?! 

I have a series of trips coming up that I have been eagerly anticipating for what seems like forever. Back during my junior year of college, I was all signed up to go to Florence to study abroad for a...

Goodness, this month has been such a whirlwind that it took until I looked at my Timehop app (an awesome app, by the way), to find out that it was the 1 year anniversary of Living Minnaly two days ago! This blog's growth this...

I already waxed on about my adoration for the city in my Best of Montréal post, but now it's time to get into the specifics. Aside from venturing through my list of top 13 cafés and restaurants that you should most definitely feed yourselves at, there are so many beautiful sights to see in this charming city. The best way...

Last November, I spontaneously booked a holiday trip to Montréal for a solo travel trip. I chose the city because it was the cheapest trip I could find, considering that it is a frozen tundra in the wintertime and no one usually picks to go to a colder place during winter except crazy me. Little did I know that this adorable city would hold such sentimental value to me, fast-forward nearly a year later...