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Wanting again at July 2023, I’m in disbelief. How did this a lot stuff occur in a single month? This a lot journey?!
This was the most important month I’ve had in a while, starting with our Boston wedding ceremony on July 2, and taking me to seven international locations in whole (!), most for just some days.
Let’s have a look — the very best of July 2023!
![Kate and Charlie on their Boston wedding day, walking up the stairs from the basement bar Cheers. Kate holds her bouquet.](https://www.adventurouskate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2023-07-02-Kate-Charlie-142323-1024x683.jpg)
Locations Visited
- Boston, Beverly, and Gloucester, Massachusetts
- London, Abbots Langley, Watford, and Bushey, England
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Mondsee, Salzburg, and Sankt Johann in Tirol, Austria
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Čilipi, Croatia
- Žabljak, Durmitor Nationwide Park, Bitine, Dabojevići, Podgorica, Perast, and Kotor, Montenegro
WHEW.
![Kate and Charlie after their Boston wedding ceremony, Kate holds up her bouquet with one arm, holding Charlie's hand, walking down the "aisle" as bridesmaids look on and cheer.](https://www.adventurouskate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2023-07-02-Kate-Charlie-160445-1024x683.jpg)
Highlights
Our Boston wedding ceremony! (I do know, I do know, you’re sick of listening to about wedding ceremony stuff — THIS IS THE LAST WEDDING IN A MONTHLY RECAP.) We knew we needed to have a Boston wedding ceremony for my household that couldn’t make it to Prague, and initially assumed it might be a small affair, perhaps one thing at a restaurant.
Then it rapidly snowballed into a marriage of round 60 — and became a wonderful occasion.
It rained fairly arduous that day, however Charlie and I bought married in Boston Public Backyard surrounded by our pals in umbrellas, and our bridesmaids in rain-soaked pastel attire! (And due to the rain, no person else was within the park!! What a bonus to a downpour.)
We had our reception at Bostonia Public Home within the Monetary District, which had SO a lot good meals and placed on an ideal occasion for us all. We completed with an after-party on the tiki bar subsequent door.
The day earlier than, the marriage, my bridesmaids and I went for afternoon tea on the Boston Public Library, and that night, everybody was invited to a get-to-know-the-guests gathering at NightShift Brewing. Each tremendous enjoyable occasions.
General — the Boston wedding ceremony was largely for my household and pals who couldn’t make Prague, although Charlie had a handful of “his individuals” there too, and it was SO good to have a good time with everybody from my household to my faculty pals to journey blogger buds. And to have the ceremony within the Public Backyard, a spot I’ve liked since I used to be eight, made it all of the extra particular.
And our officiant canceled on us on the final minute — however Charlie and I requested our buddy Chris to step in on the final minute, and he did SO AMAZINGLY with a significant ceremony.
The skilled wedding ceremony photographs are by Joe Gonzalez-Dufresne, who did a FANTASTIC job with probably the most ethereal wet photographs, and we are able to’t wait to see the remainder of them!
Past the marriage, in Boston we went to a Purple Sox recreation, visited my dad’s new rental on the North Shore, and spent a day hanging out in Gloucester, the place I hadn’t been in awhile (extremely advocate the Azorean Restaurant in case you’re on the town).
A pleasant few days within the UK. And now to see the British aspect of the household! Charlie’s sister placed on a celebration for us to have a good time with some family members who couldn’t make any of the weddings. It was so good seeing them (and having fun with his sister’s pizza shack within the yard).
Moreover, I all the time attempt to do one thing new at any time when I’m in London, and this time it was the Jurassic Afternoon Tea on the Ampersand Lodge. It is a dinosaur-themed afternoon tea — equally enjoyable for teenagers and adults, and the meals is so good! You can see my Reel about it here.
Barbie film mania! My buddy Klara and I dressed up in our Barbie greatest, we went with Charlie and our buddy Nick, and we LAUGHED OUR ASSES OFF. I didn’t count on the film to be that hilarious — I feel it’s the toughest I’ve laughed in a theater because the ending of The Hangover!
We went to a brand new Sichuan/Chongqing restaurant in Prague beforehand, Nali, and the spotlight was shrimp and pork dumplings swimming in pulsatingly scorching chili oil.
![A stately Czech palace in red and white, surrounded by tall green plants.](https://www.adventurouskate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Chateau-Troja-Prague-1024x768.jpeg)
French market in Prague! That is one in every of my favourite meals festivals of the yr, happening the week of Bastille Day. They’ve now moved the pageant from the Mala Strana finish of the Charles Bridge to Troja Chateau, which is a much more airier and fewer touristy location, making it extra of a neighborhood occasion.
A pleasant weekend in Austria. Charlie had an appointment within the Austrian city of Sankt Johann in Tirol on a Monday morning, so we determined to make a weekend of it and drive all the way down to Salzburg beforehand.
This was my first time in Salzburg in additional than a decade, and it was good to revisit the town — and make sure that the Salzburg Card is the very best metropolis card in Europe. We every paid 30 EUR for a 24-hour card and bought greater than 120 EUR worth with out an excessive amount of effort. I’ll be going into that in a submit!
We additionally briefly stopped by Mondsee to see the intense teal lake, and Sankt Johann in Tirol was a beautiful little city the place we loved an evening out at a brewery overlooking the mountains.
A stunning few days in Copenhagen. Charlie had a enterprise journey, and I tagged alongside for the weekend earlier than. It had been awhile since my final Copenhagen go to, and it’s such a stately, cool metropolis.
A number of the highlights have been taking a very nice guided tour on our first morning, hanging with my Copenhagen buddy Alex, revisiting my favourite Copenhagen restaurant Høst, having fun with excellent cocktails at Pluto, and eventually visiting Tivoli Gardens, the amusement park proper within the coronary heart of the town.
A return to Montenegro! For my birthday this yr, I needed to be in Montenegro. We began out by driving from Dubrovnik to the spectacular landscapes of Durmitor Nationwide Park. After a full day there, we headed all the way down to Ostrog Monastery, Podgorica (LOL) after which the beautiful village of Perast on the Bay of Kotor.
Perast is one in every of my new favourite locations. This beautiful village has a inhabitants of 300 and simply sufficient services for every thing you want. And whereas Kotor has change into massively overtouristed up to now decade, Perast has not. Not but, no less than.
![An aerial view of Salzburg, with lots of white and gray Italian-style buildings next to a blue river.](https://www.adventurouskate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Salzburg-Overview-1024x723.jpeg)
Challenges
Oh boy, there have been numerous snafus with the Boston wedding ceremony. I suppose we have been due some points after two good weddings. The rain, the cancelled officiant, lacking flower baskets for the children, and some different issues. But it surely’s okay. We had enjoyable with our family members, and that’s the necessary half.
Many pillow debacles. I’ve talked earlier than about how I’m having growing hassle utilizing a pillow that isn’t a contour pillow. I’ve been touring with a bit contour pillow after I can, however I didn’t this month, and right here’s what went incorrect:
In Boston, the unsupportive pillows left my entire physique in ache for days and made me notice I REALLY have to journey with a contour pillow any more, no exceptions.
In Salzburg, I by chance left my full-sized pillow behind within the resort (although bought it on the best way again from Sankt Johann the subsequent day).
In Copenhagen, I didn’t have room in my carry-on for the pillow, and each pillow within the room was so dangerous that I ended up downstairs on the entrance desk at 2 AM, begging for another type of pillow. And regardless of this being a fairly upscale resort, they’d ZERO different pillow sorts.
They promised to get me one other one from a special resort the subsequent day. They lastly did…and it was the SAME pillow squished right into a pillowcase half the scale, making it virtually spherical.
So I ended up operating out to Jysk the subsequent day, which seems to be a Danish firm (who knew?), and grabbed just a few nicer contour pillows for me and Charlie. We nonetheless have them right here in Croatia as I kind this.
Charlie flew with the pillows from Copenhagen to Dubrovnik, so I missed them for one night time. However you recognize what works in a pinch in case you’re like me? A rolled-up towel in your neck. That was the very best out of a bunch of dangerous choices.
The worst sushi ever in Podgorica. Effectively, the worst sushi ever that didn’t make us sick! How does a restaurant have photographs of sushi on their menu but put together sushi that appears nothing prefer it?!
(Why eat sushi in Montenegro? After just a few days of Balkan meat platters, you’ll be craving the rest.)
The Bay of Kotor follies. On our first day in Perast, I needed to get photographs of Budva and Sveti Stefan within the morning mild. I headed out on the bus to Kotor very first thing within the morning, having purchased my bus ticket from Kotor to Sveti Stefan on-line prematurely. That bus was packed like sardines.
Once I bought to the bus station, the road snaked across the nook. My bus confirmed up, I confirmed them my ticket, they usually WOULD NOT LET ME ON as a result of it wasn’t printed out (!!). Apparently you’re supposed to attend in that super-long line for the station to print it out for you.
I appeared to get a cab to Budva. There aren’t any ride-sharing apps in Montenegro, and the cabs quoted me 50 euros. Which is INSANE. When did Montenegro get this costly?! On precept, I gave up and headed again to Perast to relax.
Lacking my kittens lots. This month we left them with two completely different live-in cat sitters, each of whom love them they usually love, however I really feel dangerous being away from them a lot.
![Murray and Lewis, two gray tabby cats with white bellies and paws, lying on the bed, facing each other.](https://www.adventurouskate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Murray-and-Lewis-on-the-bed-1024x768.jpeg)
Weblog Posts of the Month
Yeah, not quite a lot of time to weblog this month.
Solo Female Travel in Portland, Oregon — Is it Safe? — I invite visitor author Susan to write down about her beloved city of Portland, and what makes it so superior for solo ladies vacationers!
![Kate standing on a wooden dock on a still lake reflecting mountains, surrounded by wooden boats and bright kayaks.](https://www.adventurouskate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Kate-in-Durmitor-National-Park-Montenegro-1024x700.jpg)
E-book Membership This Month
Our subsequent e book membership will on Sunday, August 13, at 7:00 PM ET. We will likely be studying In the Shadow of the Mountain by Peruvian creator and adventurer Silvia Vasquez-Lavado.
“Infinite ice. Skinny air. The specter of dropping into nothingness hundreds of toes beneath. That is the climb Silvia Vasquez-Lavado braves in her page-turning, pulse-raising memoir chronicling her journey to Mount Everest.
A Latina hero within the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. Deep within the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her household, and repressing the abuse she’d suffered as a toddler, she began climbing. One thing in regards to the brute drive required for the ascent—the danger and spirit and sheer measurement of the mountains and dying’s shut proximity—woke her up. She then took her greatest ache as a survivor to the most important mountain: Everest.
‘The Mom of the World,’ because it’s identified in Nepal, permits few to achieve her summit, however Silvia didn’t go alone. She gathered a gaggle of younger feminine survivors and led them to base camp alongside her. It was by no means simple. At instances hair-raising, nerve-racking, and all the time difficult, Silvia remembers the acute anxiousness of main a gaggle of novice climbers to Everest’s base, all of the whereas coping along with her personal nerves of summiting. However, there have been additionally moments of peace, pleasure, and therapeutic with the power of her fellow survivors and group propelling her ahead.
Within the Shadow of the Mountain is a exceptional story of heroism, one which awakens in all of us a lust for journey, an urge for food for danger, and religion in our personal resilience.”
You can learn more about the book and buy it here.
You can sign up to attend the book club here. Hope to see you there!
Most Standard Reel on Instagram
GUYS, AFTER TWO MONTHS OF RECOMMITTING TO INSTAGRAM, I’M FINALLY GOING VIRAL!!! I simply hit 2.3 million views on a single Reel (granted, that was August, so I’ll have to speak about that subsequent month).
However the FIRST viral Reel was this month was my Reel about five wedding traditions we did NOT do. Glad to see the way it’s been resonating. Do something you want!!
What I Watched This Month
Okay, so And Simply Like That is again. Sure, I’ve been a devoted watcher of this Intercourse and the Metropolis sequel, although the primary season was an absolute mess in a lot of methods.
To this point, season two has improved a LOT. From episode three onward, particularly. Bizarre single-episode hookup arcs? Glorious. Extra meals with the unique three, Anthony or Seema being the fourth? Nice. Carrie and Che paired off as pals? I really get pleasure from their chemistry collectively!
There are nonetheless quite a lot of issues, although. Too many characters. Bizarre writing choices. However Charlotte and Harry are nonetheless as head over heels in love as ever. (And if this present ever breaks them up I WILL RIOT AT DAWN.)
Under Deck replace: This month Charlie and I watched Under Deck Mediterranean Season Six. It was awhile earlier than we might carry ourselves again to Captain Sandy after the Malia-Hannah-Maritime Regulation scandal.
This season was OBVIOUSLY meant to be a redemption arc for each Sandy and Malia. The decision? I acknowledge how heavy-handed the producers have been in making us like Malia once more…and it labored. I feel she’s an ideal chief. And it was SO refreshing to have there be no sexism from her male crew for as soon as.
Captain Sandy? Nonetheless a narcissist, nonetheless a micromanager, nonetheless ignoring what she doesn’t wish to see, nonetheless talking in sound bites for her newest grift as a public speaker. “Oh, the second stew bodily attacked a number of of you? Make investments in her.” Fuck off, Sandy.
The remainder of the season was…tremendous. They’ve one of the crucial evil crew members the franchise has ever seen, and a few cringe-worthy conditions (cooking with no chef the primary night time!).
So sure. I can’t wait to get again to the nice vibes of Captain Glenn and Parsifal III. Although first — it’s time for OG Under Deck Season 10!
![Copenhagen's Nyhavn wharf, with lots of brightly colored buildings along the water.](https://www.adventurouskate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Nyhavn-Copenhagen-1024x738.jpeg)
What I Listened To This Month
This month I listened to The Retrievals — a podcast from the New York Instances. In 2020, a nurse from Yale Medical Middle was arrested for stealing fentanyl from her IVF sufferers who have been present process egg retrievals. She gave them saline as a substitute, leaving the ladies in excruciating ache.
But although this was taking place time and again, NOBODY BELIEVED THE WOMEN. Everybody thought they have been simply too delicate.
This podcast is about so many issues — how we ignore ladies’s ache. How we, as ladies, really feel like we’re being unreasonable by asking for reduction from our ache.
How giant organizations blame issues on “one dangerous apple” as a substitute of their systemic failures. How we must always punish crimes stemming from dependancy.
I extremely advocate listening — particularly in case you, like me, benefit from the twists and turns of true crime however don’t need it to be about homicide or sexual assault.
![A tiny Croatian town, Cavtat, with lots of white stone orange roofed buildings set on a wooded peninsula surrounded by sea.](https://www.adventurouskate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Cavtat-1024x770.jpeg)
Coming Up in August 2023
I’m presently typing this from Cavtat, Croatia. After our whirlwind week in Montenegro, we headed to Croatia — first time in Dubrovnik, then time in Cavtat, a beautiful little metropolis south of Dubrovnik that makes a way more chilled out various to the Pearl of the Adriatic.
However after that comes my BIG solo journey of the yr: Greenland. This vacation spot has been on my checklist for fairly a while, and I made a decision to chunk the bullet and put down a deposit on an 11-day package deal tour six months in the past.
This journey will take me primarily round Disko Bay — the favored city of Ilulissat, two nights at Eqi Glacier, two nights on Disko Island, plus time in Aasiaat and Oqaatsut — together with a stopover on the ice sheet in Kangerlussuaq.
That is probably the most distant place I’ve gone in fairly a while, and I’m really excited for the journey that lies forward. I can’t wait to point out it with all of you.
I’ve additionally bought two days in Copenhagen on either side of the journey as a buffer in case of any delays, so I’m again to the land of the tall individuals.
What are you as much as this month? Share away!
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