Photo Fave: Ice cream in Andalucia (at the heladeria)
![]() |
| Decisions, decisions. Good thing we’ll be back tomorrow. |
All content of this blog (c) Shelly Rivoli 2007 – 2011
![]() |
| Decisions, decisions. Good thing we’ll be back tomorrow. |
All content of this blog (c) Shelly Rivoli 2007 – 2011
Traveling in Costa Rica during the Easter Holy Week, you can expect some things with certainty: You will have the pleasure of seeing many crosses decorated with purple shawls and flowers in front yards, you will likely cross paths with a religious procession at some point in your journey, and you will have a hard…
If she looks a little nervous, it’s only because this big bird has free reign to fly and land where it likes. And let me tell you, watching this wild blue macaw fly right past the windows of our upper-story chalet at Arenal Lodge one morning was one of the most unexpected highlights of the…
In honor of Arbor Day today, I’m posting a photo of one of my favorite travel trees (of course, there have been many!). We walked past this tree each time we left our chalet to stroll down to Arenal Lodge (read my full hotel review here), and I always had to stop and take a…
I’d originally planned to post a photo fave from my Chinese New Years in Taiwan to follow up with the great guest post on Chinese New Year in Taipei, Taiwan, but the album seems to have gone AWOL this week. So instead I took it as a sign that I should share one of the other big…
Visiting Amsterdam with a baby, toddler, or little kids? This guest post’s got you covered with great recommendations from ex-pat mom of twins + 1 Farrah Ritter, who now calls the Netherlands home. Farrah blogs about her family’s adventures in parenting (with multiples!) and travels in her blog The Three Under (blog retired). For many people, Amsterdam comes…
Big island, big belly, big hike? Time for a big shave ice. The strange thing about landing on planet “Kilauea Iki Crater” is that the people there look really small. In fact, there are two people hiking out just an inch to the right of my shoulder that you can’t even see when I resize…