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10/5/2024
Soirée Answers Your Portugal Questions Wondering whether Portugal is the right choice for you?
From stunning beaches with crystal blue waters to great food and wine, world class architecture, and deep cultural roots, Portugal checks all the boxes for a perfect vacation. We answer your Portugal questions to help you craft a just-right travel experience.  First time travelers to Italy almost always have the same mental picture: Tuscany with its rolling green hills covered in vineyards, towering Italian cypress trees, and scenic hilltop villages. We LOVE Tuscany, we do! But we also love to help our clients experience other regions within Italy.
 Journey to authentic Sicily to discover its fascinating history, stunning seascapes, and unique food culture.
But don’t go it alone. Soirée Travel Specialists can make your personalized private journey or extra-small group trip to this Italian Mediterranean island the trip of a lifetime. Here’s how we do it.  With temperatures on average above New York City’s, you can experience one of the most exciting natural landscapes on earth, rub elbows with fun-loving locals, and feast on award-winning cuisine during the winter in Iceland.
Whether traveling independently or on our exclusive Iceland Northern Lights Hunt small group journey in February 2025, read our travel tips for visiting Iceland in winter.  Iceland. Natural hot springs. Impressive waterfalls. Volcanos. Glaciers. Icebergs.
With temperatures on average above New York City’s, in Iceland you can experience one of the most exciting natural landscapes on earth, rub elbows with fun-loving locals, and feast on award-winning cuisine. Whether traveling independently or on our exclusive Iceland Northern Lights Hunt small group journey (Feb 2025), read our 6 tips on where to go and what to do in Iceland 2/9/2024
6 Useful Sicily Travel Tips Have you been imagining a Sicily trip? This Italian island region is unlike anywhere else, so read on for 6 Useful Sicily Travel Tips.
 At the crossroads of the Mediterranean, scenic Sicily embodies the history and flavors of a half-dozen cultures. From rich cuisine to unique wines, from ancient civilizations to the modern era, Sicily is ripe for discovery. Whether traveling independently or on our exclusive Flavors of Sicily small group tour (Spring 2025), read our tips on where to go and what to do in charming Sicily
 The Schengen Agreement between 26 European countries eliminates border controls for individuals traveling between those countries. In other words, once inside the Schengen “zone,” travelers are not usually required to pass through customs or show their passports when going from one country in the Schengen Agreement to another.
An additional benefit for many travelers to Europe is that the Schengen Agreement eliminates the need for visas in many countries, depending upon the purpose and length of their stay. 4/26/2021 5 reasons to plan for Italy now4/15/2021 Saving the Cinque Terre A visit to Italy’s Cinque Terre--Five Lands—is a trip back in time to five picturesque villages clinging to the slopes and cliffs above the Ligurian Sea.
3/30/2021 Iceland reopens for USA travelers The Icelandic government has recently announced that all those who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be allowed to travel to Iceland without being subject to border measures, such as testing and quarantine. But there's more . . .
 We love traveling internationally, but there's no denying the USA has something for all of us! Avoiding crowds, to include popular National Parks? Check out these small American towns you might have missed.
3/5/2021 2021 is the year of Dante The anniversary of Dante Alighieri's death, author of The Divine Comedy and a man of controversy, will be commemorated throughout 2021 in Florence, Ravenna, and 70 other towns and villages. Now THAT's a celebration!
2/25/2021 21 Best Places to Travel in 2021 21 Best Places to Travel in 2021We are so ready to travel! How about you? In our opinion, dreaming and planning are half the fun!
2/14/2021 Civil Rights Trail Road Trip Civil Rights Trail Road TripFebruary is Black History Month, and we think it's a great time to plan a meaningful USA road trip for later this year.
The Hardest Karaoke Song in the World!
We love Iceland, and we think you will, too! In the meantime, see if you can keep up with this song!
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere ~ Martin Luther King, Jr Martin Luther King, Jr. was tragically gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968. America's Civil Rights history is only one reason to visit Memphis and the beautiful Southern USA.
We love Amsterdam, one of the most lively cities in the world! Great art, bicycles, canals, inventive food, wonderful day trip possibilities, bicycles, history, fun locals . . . and did we mention bicycles?
The works of Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh get their own museum here, and we think this free virtual tour is awesome.  Switzerland's MajestySwitzerland may not have tropical beaches, but it has just about everything else! Hiking, climbing, skiing, scenic drives and train travel, famous cheeses and chocolate, posh hotels and resorts, soothing spas, and majestic mountain views.
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