Surprise trip to Italy

When we planned the trip to Prague I didn’t think we would be traveling outside of the Czech Republic much. Maybe one side trip to Germany since it was so close. I was wrong! Mike’s brother and his brother’s fiancé decided we should go to Italy. So we took the weekend and drove across Germany and Austria to northern Italy.

We stayed at an amazing little hotel on the side of a small mountain of vineyards. The view from the balcony on our rooms was amazing, we were looking right at the Dolomites (a very famous mountain range). Of course Mike and I could not resist being that close to amazing climbing and not partaking so the following are some pictures of the view from our hotel and then a gondola ride into the Dolomites and well as some rock climbing there.

A little time off

I had an amazing summer, but sadly was not able to spend time with my boyfriend Mike since he had been working in Michigan while I did research in North Carolina. So we planned a reunion trip! We decided to go visit Mike’s brother and his brother’s fiancé who have been living in Prague in the Czech Republic for the past 5 months. This trip was both of our first times in Europe. We were only able to stay 10 days because of Mike’s work schedule, but it was an amazing taste of Europe and I know we will be back. Here are some pictures of our time in Prague…there are more pictures to come of our little road trip to Italy :  )