Just two weeks after our spectacular anniversary trip to Lake Como, Interlaken, and Alsace, we headed back to France for another "bucket-list" trip: visiting Provence during lavender season.
As soon as we started thinking about moving back to Atlanta, I began frantically narrowing down our list of "must-visit" places. One of my more creative solutions for maximizing our travel opportunities was coming up with an itinerary that allowed us to visit several completely unrelated places on the same vacation.
In mid-April, my best friend Susan and I headed to Donostia / San Sebastián in the Basque country, the historic region spanning an area across western France and northern Spain along the Bay of Biscay. We also fit in excellent day trips to Rioja, one of Spain's most celebrated wine regions, and the seaside town of Biarritz on the French side of the border.
I had been trying to get my father to come visit me and Andy from the moment we knew we were moving and I started planning out what we wanted to do with him as soon as he booked a trip. It was Dad's first time in Europe and naturally I wanted to take him to a place I knew he would absolutely love: Tuscany. Andy and I actually hadn't visited Tuscany together since our two-week trip in 2019, so we were equally as excited to simply be back in one of our favorite places.
One of the most exciting parts about moving to London is getting first-time visitors and at the end of March, I finally got to experience my mom's first trip to Europe. We spent a few days in London and Paris before making our way to the real reason we were in France -- the Burgundy wine region. We stayed in Beaune, which is about 25 miles south of Dijon along the famous Route de Grande Crus, and it couldn't have been lovelier.