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Austria

The Perfect 5-Day Vienna Itinerary: Palaces, Coffeehouses, and a Day Trip to Hallstatt.

by Bubbly May 17, 2026 14 min read

Vienna is not a city that reveals itself all at once. Its beauty unfolds gradually, through imperial palaces and hidden courtyards, through music drifting from open windows, through elegant cafés where time …

by Bubbly May 17, 2026

Saigon Restaurant Vienna: Modern Vietnamese Near the Secession

May 16, 2026 8 min read
by Bubbly May 16, 2026

The Habsburg Dynasty: The Family That Shaped Vienna

May 15, 2026 13 min read
by Bubbly May 15, 2026

The Perfect 3-Day Vienna Itinerary: Palaces, Art & Café Culture

May 14, 2026 10 min read
by Bubbly May 14, 2026

A Taste of Greece in Vienna: Dining at Odysseus Near Schönbrunn

May 13, 2026 8 min read
by Bubbly May 13, 2026

England

What We Carry: My Mother, and the Migrant Rooms at Tate Modern

by Bubbly August 7, 2026 5 min read

Migration is not only a Greek story, or an Italian one. It belongs to everyone, everywhere, and it always has: the leaving, the packing of a whole life into one suitcase, and …

by Bubbly August 7, 2026

Art as Witness: Two Rooms at Tate Modern

August 6, 2026 6 min read
by Bubbly August 6, 2026

Five Days in London: An Unhurried First-Timer’s Itinerary

August 5, 2026 10 min read
by Bubbly August 5, 2026

From Europe to the Americas: Geometric Abstraction at Tate Modern

August 4, 2026 7 min read
by Bubbly August 4, 2026

Three Day Trips from London I’ve Actually Taken: Windsor, Stonehenge and Bath

August 3, 2026 8 min read
by Bubbly August 3, 2026

France

Impressionism in Paris: Where To See Monet, Renoir & Degas’ Legacy

by Bubbly September 7, 2025 4 min read

Bonjour art lovers! 🌸 Paris is not only the City of Light, it’s also the birthplace of Impressionism, a movement that changed the course of art forever. In the late 19th century, …

by Bubbly September 7, 2025

3 Days in Paris Itinerary: How to See The Best of Paris in 72 Hours

September 6, 2025 5 min read
by Bubbly September 6, 2025

Best Day Trips from Paris: Castles, Countryside & Hidden Gems

September 5, 2025 6 min read
by Bubbly September 5, 2025

The Glass Pyramid at the Louvre: Where Parisian Magic Meets Modern Masterpiece

September 4, 2025 4 min read
by Bubbly September 4, 2025

10 Hidden Gems of Paris You’ll Fall in Love With

September 3, 2025 7 min read
by Bubbly September 3, 2025

Italy

The Devil Wears Prada 2 and the Milan I Had Already Walked

by Bubbly July 25, 2026 11 min read

I loved the first one. Loved it enough that when a sequel was announced, twenty years after Andy first walked into Runway with the wrong shoes, I was equal parts thrilled and …

by Bubbly July 25, 2026

The Perfect 5-Day Florence Itinerary: Art, Food & Hidden Gems

March 5, 2026 9 min read
by Bubbly March 5, 2026

Best Day Trips from Florence: A Guide to Tuscany & Beyond

March 4, 2026 9 min read
by Bubbly March 4, 2026

3 Days in Florence: The Perfect Itinerary for Art, History & Renaissance Magic

March 3, 2026 8 min read
by Bubbly March 3, 2026

San Miniato al Monte: Florence Above the Noise – A Journey to One of the City’s Most Spiritual Places

March 2, 2026 9 min read
by Bubbly March 2, 2026

Netherlands

Two Hours, Twenty Seats: An Amsterdam Canal Cruise

by Bubbly September 21, 2026 9 min read

This is the boat. Cream hull, varnished timber window frames, lifebuoys strapped to the canopy, a Dutch flag at the bow, and along the side the registration and the capacity: twenty passengers. …

by Bubbly September 21, 2026

Two Years, One Face: Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits in Amsterdam

September 20, 2026 8 min read
by Bubbly September 20, 2026

Keukenhof’s Juliana Grounds: The Orchids Were Inside

September 19, 2026 7 min read
by Bubbly September 19, 2026

Bistro Vincent: Lunch Inside the Van Gogh Museum

September 18, 2026 8 min read
by Bubbly September 18, 2026

Four Van Goghs at the Rijksmuseum: The Wing Everybody Walks Past

September 17, 2026 10 min read
by Bubbly September 17, 2026

Portugal

Blue and White: What Lisbon and Amsterdam Have in Common

by Bubbly September 7, 2026 9 min read

I have three of these on a shelf at home. They came from KLM flights, they are filled with Dutch gin, and each one is a scale model of a real building …

by Bubbly September 7, 2026

Lisbon in 5 Days: A Slow, Soulful Itinerary for Falling in Love with the City

January 15, 2026 10 min read
by Bubbly January 15, 2026

Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara – Where Lisbon Reveals Itself, Day and Night

January 14, 2026 4 min read
by Bubbly January 14, 2026

Lisbon in 3 Days – A Gentle Introduction to Light, History, and Everyday Magic

January 13, 2026 7 min read
by Bubbly January 13, 2026

Top 10 Hidden Gems in Lisbon – Secret Spots Only Locals Know

December 27, 2025 9 min read
by Bubbly December 27, 2025

Spain

The Perfect 3-Day Madrid Itinerary: Art, Royalty, Food & Magical Moments

by Bubbly December 5, 2025 8 min read

Hola, beautiful travelers! After exploring Madrid corner by corner and sharing so many stories with you on BubblyLiving, it finally felt like the perfect moment to bring everything together into one sparkling, …

by Bubbly December 5, 2025

Plaza de España, Madrid: Where History, Modernity & Green Beauty Meet

December 4, 2025 4 min read
by Bubbly December 4, 2025

Madrid’s Golden Triangle of Art: A Journey Through Three World-Class Museums

December 3, 2025 5 min read
by Bubbly December 3, 2025

Plaza de Cibeles – Madrid’s Grand White Gateway

December 2, 2025 4 min read
by Bubbly December 2, 2025

Plaza de la Armería – The Grand Stage Between Madrid’s Royal Icons

December 1, 2025 4 min read
by Bubbly December 1, 2025

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    Zaanse Schans, and the Trouble With Bundled Day Trips

    by Bubbly September 9, 2026
    by Bubbly September 9, 2026 10 min read

    I saw Zaanse Schans because it came attached to something else. The tour I booked bundled Keukenhof with an afternoon here, which is why I had half a day in the tulip …

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    Café Vertigo, Amsterdam: Go for the Terrace, Not the Food

    by Bubbly September 8, 2026
    by Bubbly September 8, 2026 7 min read

    I had walked through Vondelpark in Amsterdam several times before I ever ate there. In April the pond carries floating beds of tulips, planted on black rafts and set out across the …

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    Blue and White: What Lisbon and Amsterdam Have in Common

    by Bubbly September 7, 2026
    by Bubbly September 7, 2026 9 min read

    I have three of these on a shelf at home. They came from KLM flights, they are filled with Dutch gin, and each one is a scale model of a real building …

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  • Lisse

    Not Everything Is a Lily: Keukenhof’s Willem-Alexander Pavilion

    by Bubbly September 6, 2026
    by Bubbly September 6, 2026 9 min read

    I walked into this building thinking I was looking at lilies. I walked out knowing I was not, and the correction came from a small white card on a plinth. That is …

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    Verstappen, Foosball and the End of the Heineken Tour

    by Bubbly September 5, 2026
    by Bubbly September 5, 2026 7 min read

    I support Mercedes. I mention this because the last stretch of the Heineken Experience in Amsterdam is essentially a shrine to a Red Bull driver, and I walked into it as a …

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    Ships, Smoke and Glory: The Rijksmuseum’s Maritime Room

    by Bubbly September 4, 2026
    by Bubbly September 4, 2026 12 min read

    I studied history. That is most of the explanation for this blog, and it is the whole explanation for why I will happily give an hour to one room in the Rijksmuseum …

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    Inside the Historic Brew Room at the Heineken Experience

    by Bubbly September 3, 2026
    by Bubbly September 3, 2026 9 min read

    I do not drink beer. I have said so in print before now, and it is still true, so the honest place to start is that I booked the Heineken Experience in …

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    The Rijksmuseum Gardens: Amsterdam’s Free Outdoor Museum

    by Bubbly September 2, 2026
    by Bubbly September 2, 2026 9 min read

    The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam takes a few hours to get through, and by the end of mine the paintings had stopped landing. The garden outside fixed that faster than a coffee would …

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    Flow, Amsterdam: Worth the Wait, and It Was a Long One

    by Bubbly September 1, 2026
    by Bubbly September 1, 2026 8 min read

    We went to Flow on the morning after King’s Day. King’s Day falls on 27 April and is the Dutch national holiday for the King’s birthday. The country spends it outdoors and …

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    The Rijksmuseum: One Day Is Not Enough, but It Is Possible

    by Bubbly August 31, 2026
    by Bubbly August 31, 2026 14 min read

    People call the Rijksmuseum the Louvre of Amsterdam, and I understand why. Both are national collections in enormous nineteenth-century buildings, both are built around one painting everybody has come to see, and …

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    Freddy’s Bar: The Heineken VIP Tour, by a Non-Drinker

    by Bubbly August 30, 2026
    by Bubbly August 30, 2026 9 min read

    I do not drink beer. I booked a beer tour anyway, paid extra for the upgraded version of it, and spent an hour in a bar hidden behind a refrigerator door. That …

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  • Lisse

    Keukenhof in Half a Day, and Why That Was a Mistake

    by Bubbly August 29, 2026
    by Bubbly August 29, 2026 12 min read

    Every May I go to the Canadian Tulip Festival in Ottawa. It is a fixture of my spring, and after enough visits I thought I had a reasonable idea of what a …

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