by Lindsey Grafe | Aug 26, 2017 | History & Folk Tales
Have you ever seen a dead body? I have, and I’m not just talking about a skeleton; I mean an actual body – one with fingernails and skin and muscle tissue. The bog bodies in Ireland’s National Museum allowed me that experience. The thing about...
by Lindsey Grafe | Aug 19, 2017 | Destinations, Mostly Photos
Northern Morocco is not at all what I expected it to be. You can chalk it up to media influence or just plain ignorance, but I always imagined the region of North Africa as this big, sprawling desert chock-full of bedouin tribes and mountainous sand dunes. Of course,...
by Lindsey Grafe | Apr 2, 2017 | Destinations, Travel Tips
Let me just say that by no means do I recommend trying to see Florence in just one day. You’ll spend the entire time running from museum to museum, monument to monument, with barely any time to rest, shop, or really even eat. And if you don’t do that,...
by Lindsey Grafe | Mar 25, 2017 | Destinations, Food
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m obsessed with food and what foods to try next. Now, I’m not nearly pretentious enough to be considered a “foodie” (I’m more like a human garbage can), but by far one of my favorite things to do when...
by Lindsey Grafe | Mar 19, 2017 | Anxiety, Destinations, Learn from Lindsey, Travel Tips
I was robbed in Spain, and I didn’t even know it was happening. It was our last day in the historic city of Toledo, just a half-hour outside of Madrid. I was lounging in my bed, stomach full of dinner and wine, thinking about what might await us as we...