Trip Itinerary

Our trip is coming up soon! Just wanted to give you a short itinerary of our travels. We depart from North Carolina on July 16^th and arrive in Madrid, Spain. Then we spend a few days in Barcelona. The day before my birthday we arrive in France and we will spend ten days working on a magnificent vineyard in a beautiful countryside. Then we make our way to Paris we might stop in Dijon or maybe Bordeaux. But once we get to Paris we will stay there for about a week and I have a long list of places we want to eat at. We have been practicing our French especially how to order coffee, this is very important. Next we fly to Dublin, Ireland and spend a day exploring before we get picked up by our first host family that lives near Waterford. The wife is a writer and the husband is a chef. We will be helping them get their garden fixed and possibly working in their restaurant. Then our second host family is near Cork, Ireland and we will just be helping around the house with whatever they need, they live on the water and go out on the boat pretty often. The last host family for Ireland is near Cork also. They have a traditional walled garden, rose garden, Victorian knot garden and vegetable gardens and orchards. They love to cook and already said they can’t wait till we get there and exchange recipes and cook for each other. October we will be in Scotland enjoying the countryside and then head over to Wales to see the famous castles and then spend a weekend in London. We fly from London to Italy and start my favorite part of the trip. We have a little time to explore Milan and Venice and Rome before we go to our first host family. And we are trying to make reservations at Chef Massimo’s restaurant to experience his famous tasting menu. We both have never had the opportunity to eat a chef’s tasting menu before and if we get the chance to experience this one in Italy of all places, we will be so excited! In November we will arrive at our first host family for Italy. They have a gorgeous house up in the mountains of Abruzzi National Park between Rome and Naples. We will be there during the olive picking season and hopefully get to see the whole process of making olive oil. Then my favorite host family is in southern Italy they are a retired couple but young at heart. They love food and wine and grow their own vegetables and the husband is a retired chef. They said they live an easy life and we get to be a part of it for a few weeks and the best part is we can learn Italian cooking from the local chef out of his own kitchen. Their house sits on a hill in the countryside and the view from the terrace is beautiful I can’t wait till we get there. Then they have a friend down the road that needs help picking olives so we will stay with her for the last week in November. At the start of December we will be in Geneva, Switzerland touring a Swiss chocolate factory and then seeing where they make Gruyere cheese. And hopefully going on a glacier excursion. Then we cross over to the far side of Switzerland to Davos where we rented a cute little apartment on a ski resort and we will be snowboarding that whole week. The resort covers like 5 mountains so we have a lot of trails to explore. Justin is super excited about this part, he loves snowboarding and I’m sure we will be posting videos of him gliding through the snow.  This is the end of our adventure we fly out of Switzerland on December 15^th and arrive home later that night.

A lot of planning a researching has gone into this trip and we are getting closer every day to leaving. We are excited and nervous and ready for July to get here! We are both working crazy hours and I have been working two jobs to save up money especially this last month. If anyone wants to help support us in thoughts and prayers or in funds that would be appreciated. We have a fund me account and here is the link.  Gofundme.com/Chefs2  Please donate if you can even $10 goes a long way. Thanks so much for following us. Only 53 more days!!!

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