My family and I recently went on an amazing vacation—it was a cruise around the Mediterranean that began in Barcelona, Spain, and stopped in beautiful ports through Europe, including Naples, Rome, Florence/Pisa and the French Riviera.

We left New York on Friday night on a “red eye” and arrived in Spain on Saturday morning. Barcelona was interesting, especially since it was our first European city, and it was my job to take photos, and do the conversion from euros to dollars—when we were there, the conversion rate was around 1.20 euros. We did a lot of shopping in [ ...continue reading ]