Our Favorite European Trips Since 2017: A Birthday Travel Round-Up

We’re kicking off Season 2 of The Getawayz with a trip down memory lane, sharing all the places we’ve celebrated Lisa’s birthday since moving to Europe in 2017. From beach towns to the mountains, we’ve had some unforgettable trips, amazing food and a few hiccups along the way. Whether you’re planning your own European birthday trip or just looking for new travel inspiration, this episode has plenty of ideas to add to your list.

Transcript

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Hello and welcome back. I'm Lisa. And I'm Erin. And this is the Getaways Podcast. Welcome to season two, ladies and gentlemen and people all around.

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We had some we had some technical difficulties on the road with recording, so we're a couple weeks late, but welcome back.

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We are very excited. We have a big season coming for you with lots of big cities and lots of like fun discussions. So hopefully you guys will all uh love it and keep us posted on what you like and what you don't.

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Yes. So summer officially over.

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We're recording over Labor Day weekend in the US. So the very last day of April or of August.

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Yes.

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Here. So yeah. So we are we are officially saying farewell to summer and moving into fall. Yay! And with fall comes Christmas talk too and winter stuff. So that'll be coming. All good things.

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So speaking of all good things, today's episode is all about Lisa's birthday and how we've spent the last eight years living in Europe celebrating Lisa, which would be a better thing that you celebrate.

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But all right, so should we just start our first year?

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Yes, in 2017.

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Yeah, which I think started a lifelong love. And that is of the Dolomiti. And that is for I think everyone probably knows, but it's the part of the Alps in northern Italy into Austria.

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But we were on the Italian side, which is South Tyrol, and then Tyrol's in the Austrian side, which we love Tyrol.

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Yeah, there's there's no bad place, but but here was exceptionally crazy, beautiful, and super fun.

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And our first taste.

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Yeah. So I think we were just there for a couple days, weren't we? Because that was our first summer. We didn't do like summer summer. We like did little trips, like a lot of little trips, didn't we?

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Yeah, maybe two or three days max.

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Yeah. So we stayed at this amazing hotel called the Berg Hotel Zerm. And it was super alpine. Like the vibe was just so it was alpine.

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Like there's just no getting around. It was like the light oak floors, furniture, coziness.

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And the staff was all dressed in traditional outfits. And the cool thing about a lot of places in the Dolomiti is that you have, like you'll stay at a hotel and it's what do they call it, half or three quarters. Or three quarters. Oh. It's I think it's three quarter, isn't it?

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Yeah, I guess it's three-quarters board.

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So you get your for the price, and it's usually per person, you get your room and then breakfast, which is usually a buffet, and then dinner, which usually has some buffet items, but mostly like you order your main dish to sit at the table. Yeah. Right. So that was our first real experience with that, too.

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Which is amazing. Yeah. So you only have to worry about lunch.

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Yeah. And usually you're out like doing an excursion or something or on a hike. So, you know, you can do a picnic or you can, you know, grab something along the way.

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We went to that amazing thing up the mountain. Yeah. That I think is only accessible via gondola.

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Yeah.

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It was so good.

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And there was a crazy, we have pictures of it, but there was this crazy like playground at the edge of this. I mean, cliff sounds so dramatic, but it was so steep going down, and there was a swing.

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It was a ski mountain.

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Yeah. So there was a swing at the end of it. And Dylan was swinging on it. It just looked like he was gonna drop off into nothingness, but it was so incredibly beautiful and fairy tale.

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It was, it was magical. Now I want to go back. I know. And I get emails from them all the time. In fact, I got birthday email for you.

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Well, I didn't you didn't share that.

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Well, maybe they were gonna go this year.

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Maybe they're gonna give me loads of free stuff.

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Yeah.

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Not it's not cheap. It's not cheap, but it is worth it. And you know my birthday's a special occasion.

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And it they're so well, this one especially, so family friendly.

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And dog friendly. And dog friendly. They had a dog room. They had a dog like dining area where you could take your dog to eat. We had cash then and we didn't take him because you know he didn't really like everybody or everything. So he would stay in our room when we ate, but he did all the like hiking adventures with us. He went up in the gondola with us.

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But they have that dog cleaning station outside before you go in. Yeah. Oh, he yeah, he went in the gondola first and last.

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He did great in that. He didn't get afraid of them until later. Yeah.

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Until Switzer Swedes are land.

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Yeah, no, then he, I don't know what happened. Something in his little brain went, oh no.

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And then once once his brain went like that, there was there's no turning back. Gondolas were the enemy for the rest of his life.

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But thank goodness he went up that time because we had a great time like exploring upgrades. Good pictures. Yeah. We'll get into more specifics in a later episode. Oh yeah, we'll do a total. Yeah, because there is explored. There's so much to explore and so much to do. And it's so incredibly beautiful and also so family friendly, dog friendly. I mean, if you if you enjoy the outdoors at all, like you you can't not go.

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Yes, that episode coming very soon. Yeah. But today's just about Lisa's birthday.

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Today's about me. All right. 2018.

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2018. Oh, so we followed this girl called Girl in Florence, and she went to this place called Venosola. And Lisa saw it and she's like, we've got to go here. So we booked not even a full week, like four days. In Venosola for her birthday, and another dream birthday, I feel like it was so Bonosola is in Liguria and it's a sea city, seaside. Is that what you town?

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Yeah. Village. Yeah. And very close to the Chinquatere region.

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Very two train stops, like what 10-minute train?

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Yeah. So you're in a great location because you can go to Portofino very easily. You can go to Chinquatere very easily, but you don't need to because the little town village, whatever you want to call it, is so incredibly charming. The beach is beautiful. It's rocky, like it's little tiny rocks. So the water is crystal clear and bananas. The little village is so cute. There's tons of places to walk. There was like this meditation area that was kind of a church meditation area that Cash and I walked down to every morning with this insane view of the coastline. They had cute little restaurants. We ate out a few times. I cooked a lot at that on that trip, but we went out to a couple restaurants, and then that's where we found sorbetto.

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Sorbetto, which is like lemon sorbet with vodka. I always thought it was lemon cello, but it's lemon sorbet with vodka, basically. Which is lemon cello.

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Which is lemoncello, like it's poor man's version.

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It's like the Italian version of jello shots kind of. I could drink that all day, but I would not be walking if I did, because it's strong.

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Yeah, but real like super nice late afternoon, early evening treat to cool off and relax.

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Another thing about Bonos Bonocela that I loved was they took the old train, train tunnels, and turned them into bike paths. So you can rent bikes. We had to go to Spezia to get the bikes to rent the bikes. Yeah. But you can literally ride from like Bonosala all the way to Cinquitere to Monte Rosa, I believe. Yeah. And on the routes, oh, and you can go north, but I don't know how far north. But on the routes, there's stops to go down to beaches that are only accessible from the bike trail. Yeah. Yeah. Which I thought was really cool.

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Yeah, no, it's super cool because obviously you don't have to deal with traffic, you don't have to deal with any sort of cars, and you get built-in air conditioning. I know. Do you remember that? Yeah. You'd go into these tunnels and it was, you know, it's all rock and cement. And so it doesn't get hot in there. So it's like you'd go through a space where you were out in the opening sun and it was hot. And then it was like you would pedal as fast as you could just to get into the tunnel part because it was like a breath of fresh air. It was like 20-degree difference. Like it's bananas.

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That was really like memorable. I loved that. I want to go back. Another thing, Ligoria is famous for focaccia. And so we ate a lot of focaccia. And pesto. And pesto.

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Yeah. But yeah, we had we had a really great trip. And it's one of those things that I know, like, you know, we'll talk more about Italian summer in general, even in our next episode. But life is very, very simple for an Italian summer. And it is going to the beach, going for a bike ride, having sorbetta. Like that's it. It's it's not or gelato. Like it's not rushing around sightseeing. It's enjoying the sea and staying in these little villages and eating local food and relaxing. Yeah. And that's exactly what this trip was. And most of our summers, but this one in particular.

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And for your birthday, we found this.

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I don't even remember how we found it, but it may have been Girl in Florence, too.

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Yeah, so Girl in Florence on Instagram. She's really interesting. You should go follow her. But a place called Cafe Miki. I always called it Milky, but there's no L in it.

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Well, it kind of looks like it though if you look at it.

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It does. It does. And it was so good. So like great fresh seafood. Yeah. So good. And it was like down kind of in a cave vibe, wasn't it?

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Yeah, but on the sea, but not a sea view where we were. But that was in Chinguater. That was the first island.

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That was in Monterrosa.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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All right. So 2019, another place that Lisa wanted to go. So so far, three out of three is places Lisa's wanted to go. We went to Elba Island, and you found Elba Island through your friend Tomas, right? His name's not Thomas. It's Thomas.

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But was it or was it Alex? No, it was one of the so then it was then it was Rocky. Okay. So I think Rocky had been there before. Who would those were both guys that I went to wine school with and who had traveled around a bit before they started. And so we took it was like a 45-minute boat off of the coast of Tuscany, right?

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Yeah, from Lavorno, yeah.

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And dog friendly, the boat over there.

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Yeah.

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And then we had rented a little Airbnb.

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A Pied.

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Yeah.

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Is that what they're called?

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I don't know what that means.

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Pia de T, isn't that French? Pia de T. Pia de Ta French is not my native tongue. We're my second native tongue.

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Yeah, but it was what city was it? I said foot and tea, didn't I? And I unbelievably did not know what you meant by that.

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In a in a place called Rio Nelba. So that's the town. Yeah. It was up. It was up from the sea. We were a good distance from any beach.

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We were, but what we weren't a good distance from was really, really nice hiking that Cash and I would do every morning.

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Beautiful hiking.

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And we had good food. But we were staying in this tiny, tiny, tiny little village.

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Tiny village, like probably 200 people.

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Yeah.

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And 500 cats.

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And which Cash loved all of them. So there were these signs all over town about this circus. And it was like on a Saturday night, right? It was like, you know, eight o'clock circus in the piazza. And so we're like, well, what the heck was that gonna be? And so we go down, and there's probably what, like a hundred like folding chairs. Yeah. And they were right. They turned it into like this weird Italian circus.

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It was so weird, but so I couldn't take my eyes off of it.

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And like everybody in town. Like, I don't I think somebody could have robbed the entire town and nobody would have noticed. Nobody would have noticed. Everybody was eyes on the circus.

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Yeah, I don't think there's much to rob or not.

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No, I know. And no crime really happened there anyway. But it's it was just so like every single person was there. And so hap everybody's so happy. And like dancing, yeah, you know, I mean, it was crazy. But what I will say quickly about Elba is that every single day we went to a different beach, and every single day we could have been in a completely different place.

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We were on some of the most beautiful beaches, and they were all so different. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you have to you have to park on the road. There's not parking lots. This it's not a big island. So you park on the side of the road, you'll know where there's good beaches because there's cars. Yeah. And then sometimes you have to like really take a hike down. Sometimes you just walk through a forest to get to it. But but they're fantastic.

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Well, and that's part of the adventure, right? Yeah. Yeah. So you sometimes you don't even know what you're gonna find when you climb down. Yeah.

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We just got a list of the most beautiful beaches and we just started ticking them off every day.

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Yeah. But I just had to share that like it's not, you know, it's it's the kind of thing where every day is like it's use your own adventure. And that's what I really loved about that island.

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Yeah. Now, big surprise we went to a seafood restaurant for Lisa's birthday that year too.

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We did.

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Because we were on the sea.

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Well, we were on the sea, but also it's like my favorite thing. Like, I can't eat land food during the summer.

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Not when you're at the sea, it's not you're not supposed to. Okay, so let's move on to 2020. Okay. We don't only call this Lisa's birthday, we call it the celebration of life because we survived COVID. And maybe we'll do an episode about COVID in Italy, but we survived COVID in Italy. So we went to Sardinia.

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Yeah. So we had rented this little house in Tartania. Yep. And it is remote as well.

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It's remote, not potable water.

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No, but but very, very close to the beach.

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Yeah, like a five-minute walk down a dirt path.

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And we had had at 2020 was a rough year for a number of reasons, but also Cash had had spinal surgery, and this was the first place that he like was really doing better.

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Yeah, he finally came back to himself.

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Yeah, and we had this in our at the the rental, the Airbnb had like a little yard, which was great. We ate out di dinner out there every night, and and they had an outdoor kitchen, and it was just a really great summery place. But I remember like he was doing donuts out in the grass. He loved it, yeah. And we were like, Oh, he's back.

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And we were pretty close to a dog beach that he could go dip his feet in. Yeah, it was so good we went back to this place. That's how good this house was. But it was remote for Lisa's birthday. I think Dylan just cooked you food that night.

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Yeah, he the theme was peaches, remember? Oh, yes. And he made a bunch of food that had different juices of peaches. But no, that was great. It was very low-key, very nature, very homey. But I love that part of Sardinia too. So I mean, not that there's a part I don't love.

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That so that was 2020. For 2021, we went to Lisa's Heritage, Croatia, and we were in split for her birthday that year.

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We were, which was we've talked a little bit about the split house, I think, before, but it was really cool because we could be on like we had this great house right on the sea, and we had, you know, we swam every night. We swam, like I would like to take we had Rex then. That was his first summer with us, right? Yeah, yeah. So we would, and there was again like so many trails and like yeah, rustic areas on this tiny little island, and then I would swim and whatever, but then we also had the option to go into Split.

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Yeah, like it was like a 15-minute drive from Split.

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And what a cute little town.

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Split's great, yeah.

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And we did a scavenger hunt there that was like finding it was like for purifying water or something. Like it was a kind of a random theme, but very interactive, yeah. And yeah, and we had to like like be chemists for a second, but it was super briefcase, yeah. And but it took us around and gave us a really nice intro to the city, and and it is really, really cute. And it was kind of a you know, it's it was nice to have the the city and the beach, yeah. You know, like you could be away from everything or not, depending on what your vibe was.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Yes, definitely. And for your birthday though, I don't remember. Did we have dinner at that restaurant up the hill or did we cook at home?

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No, you went and picked up food. I had so the problem with being a remote worker, which there's not very many problems with it, but I still have a lot of work in LA and the US in general. And so I had a call in the middle of my birthday now.

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It interrupts a lot of dinners on vacation. And it did it again this year.

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It did.

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It's like a tradition that she has calls on her birthday.

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So, but Split was great, would love to go back there.

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Yeah, definitely.

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And then 2022, we had already moved to the Netherlands.

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Yes, we lived in Rotterdam.

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Yeah. And so we did a bit of a staycation getaway for that.

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Yes, because we had just gotten back from Sardinia and Sis League.

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And Dylan was starting school, so we had to be back.

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We had to be back. So in Amsterdam, you can rent, well, there's all the canal tour boats, which we love the canal tours, but you can there's this company that does you can just rent the boat private and bring your own food. With a skipper, though. Yeah, with a skipper, and he he can do the tour or not do the tour. We we've done it so many times we didn't need like the the tour, but he'll take you an all the tour route, and rex could go, and nobody else was on the boat. So we thought Dylan and I thought it'd be nice to do like a picnic out on the canals with the private boat with Rex. And so that's what we did. We got we got rooms at the NH that we really like.

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Yeah, and it's right near Vondel Park, so it was also really nice for walking and for Rex, and just a great location for the hotel.

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It and a great location to explore the rings, which is the center of Amsterdam, which is where everybody wants to but go. But yeah, but it's right outside the rings, so there's easy parking.

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That's not cheap.

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No. Parking in Amsterdam is a thing. And then we did the boat, and then we went to this place that's not open anymore called Mama Kelly's and had chicken and lobster.

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Which sounds like a weird combination, but you chose one or the other, yeah, and then your whole meal was sort of based around that, and it was really good.

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Yeah, but it's closed now. Sorry.

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Yeah. Sorry to dangle that.

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And then 2023 was a bit of a a detour because I had planned we love Sanse wine. And so I thought it'd be nice to spend Lisa's birthday in Sansere and like find a vineyard, and so I do some tastings. And I found this place that had they're like little mobile homes, right?

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Yeah, it's it's like a it's like a glamping kind of place.

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Yeah. So I found this place, it looked really cute. So we get there, it was it was cute, and then and it was beautiful, but it a, there was there's nothing to do in Sansa, or at least we're not gonna have to do it.

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Nothing we could find, yeah.

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And B, something spooked the dog in the house, and he in the vineyard, he would bark at the vines, and then when he was in the house, he'd bark at the roof, and then when he's outside, he'd look at the roof and bark. And and he was so spooked, and there was really nothing to do. We just kind of decided to cut that trip short after one night, and it was hot in the house and the air conditioning wasn't great. I have to say there was one of our fails.

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Yeah, and it was just more than there was anything wrong, the vibe just wasn't meshing.

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It was it wasn't our vibe at all. So we pulled it together and we decided to spend her birthday in Luxembourg, which we love Luxembourg anyway, but we've never stayed in Luxembourg, and this time we stayed in Luxembourg in one of the hotels in the chain that we'd love to stay in when we travel Europe.

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Right. And and I got like it wasn't even because it was my birthday, but I got like the best room.

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It was like a freaking suite, like what it was so big. She was like, Is your room like this? Like, well, no, it's not like this at all.

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Rex and I were like doing donuts in the room. It was so big, and it was like on the corner, and it was like wraparound windows.

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I mean, it was bananas, and it and the hotel was in Luxembourg, but it was right not right in the center, right? But really close. And and it had that great park that we could walk up to.

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Yeah, I mean, Rex and I had a great time like finding. Places and there was this big open field where he can run and play. Then we found the hiking right down the street.

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Luxembourg's probably not on most of your lists, but it is a beautiful country. Like the hiking's beautiful there. The Luxembourg city is beautiful.

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It's like the high and the low city. Oh. But wait, we got to talk about what we actually did on my birthday. We did that big hike with those big rocks.

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Oh, yeah. I don't remember what that's called. I'll I'll put a post up this week about it. Okay. For sure. It'll be up this week. But it's a famous hike, and it's it's it was something.

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It's one of my favorite hikes that I've ever done, short of probably the Bellamides. But it had these like huge rock formations. Rex could come. It was there were people there, but it wasn't like bananas. I don't know. I mean, there's some places where you hike where it's like it's not even nature because there's so many people around. Yeah. And it's it was just so beautiful. And we were probably gone for like two or three hours.

SPEAKER_01 20:57

Yeah, and there's like suspension bridges. There's this, you didn't go in, did you? I did. There's you can go in this cave and climb up this ladder to the top part of the cave and then hike down. We did Dylan and I did that. Yeah. It was it's beautiful, and it's famous for a reason, I believe. And there's no bears in Luxembourg. I checked, but we did the hike, and then we decided that we were going to have sushi for dinner and have it at the house so Rex could be with us.

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Well, that's not what we decided. We there were like three restaurants we were going to go to and they were all closed, remember? Oh, yeah. Because the end of August, it's it gets a little risky of what's open and what's not because everybody's on vacation. Yeah everywhere. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:37

So, yes, they were closed. And so we decided to order sushi. Did we go pick it up or did it get delivered?

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I don't remember, but we ate it in my very glamorous room.

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Giant room. It was that was such a good birthday. That was a good birthday. It ended up like last minute, but yeah, that was nice.

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Yeah.

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And so then 2024.

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Yeah. So my niece moved here shortly after my birthday, and my sister and my brother-in-law came to move her in, and then we all went out to a very fancy birthday at the cheese bar, which is like a pretty famous restaurant in Amsterdam, right? Where it's like a cheese train.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

Yeah, if you sit at the bar.

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Yeah, there's a conveyor belt. You can pick what you want. But we got this like ginormous platter for like a chakolery that went all the way across the table of like six or seven of us. Six. So yeah, but I mean it was like more food than and more cheese than any of us could have eaten. But it was so delicious. So good. And definitely worth a stop when you're in Amsterdam because it was it was a very, very good meal, and I still think about it often.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

It is good, yeah. All right, and then that leads us to this year, 2025. We were in Pulia this summer, which we'll talk about on the other episode we're uploading today.

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So we discovered this beach that had these huge inflatables for kids to like other obstacle course for kids to play on, and it is dog friendly. And so there's this little piece of the beach that all the dogs can come and swim and hang out, but there's also a beach club right up from it that has the beds and little gazebos where you can take your dog that are completely fenced off. They have like a hose so you can give your dog water or wash them off or whatever. They have dog beds, they have bowls.

SPEAKER_01 23:26

Yeah, it's like 20, 20 spots with umbrellas and chairs that are completely fenced in and then four gazebos.

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Yeah.

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I mean, to see all these people with their dogs at the beach and the dogs just laying under the loungers and it was so nice. And and Rex really enjoyed it, I think.

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He did, he did, and we, you know, and then we would go out and swim. The beach was a little crowded, so a few times I had to let's like hold him and let his arm his feet just go crazy in the water. But no, it was really nice. And then they had uh full services, so we got lunch and brought that back into the area with us, and I could have lunch with him just hanging out. No, it was great. That was good, yeah. What'd we have for dinner that night? Well, I had a call that night too. Oh, yeah. Well, then I made dinner, but it wasn't anything special. Yeah, we make Lisa make her own birthday dinner. I sang to myself too. And then we had ice cream cake or gelato cake. Yeah. So yeah. So no, it was great.

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Next year we're hoping, fingers crossed, to be spending Lisa's birthday in Spain.

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But we're we're not exactly sure where. So if you have any ideas on that, yeah, there's someone that you love. All right. So that wraps up my birthday extravaganzas. Hope you have enjoyed, as I have.

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It's good to be back. Welcome back. And we will talk to you soon. Check out the website, www.the getawayswithaze.com.

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And we will be hopefully having a great second season. So we look forward to more. Um thanks for listening. Bye. Bye.