Fav 5 Travel Guides are a short list of the best things I've found to do, see, eat, or drink in a particular location. This guide is for Rome, Italy. 

Look no further for more posts about International Travel and a Fav 5 Travel Guide for Naples, Italy.

Visiting Italy has been a dream of mine for my entire life. I finally touched down in the motherland in 2014. It was my very first trip abroad and Bryce and I were celebrating our honeymoon!

Our first stop was, of course, Rome. We were both new to international travel and we were so proud to have planned the whole trip ourselves. We spent 4 days in Rome and absolutely fell in love with the city.

Spoiler alert: We love Rome so much we'd go back again just two years later. 

This isn't the most exciting post I've ever compiled. Between vacations and weekends, though, I spend the majority of my life at an office. I want my space to be neat and my time to be productive. The desk feels like it's mine and has everything I need to keep me busy, comfortable, and on task.

My three Office Favorites are perfect for your desk at your workplace or wherever you spend your day. Grab one for yourself or your favorite productivity junkie's Christmas stocking, Advent calendar, or Haukkanah gift. 

{Let's See Seattle} is where you can find the very best parts of the city of Seattle. The great eats, gorgeous spots, and weirdest attractions of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest overall come to life right before your eyes. 

Recent {Let's See Seattle} posts include Seattle for Kids and What to Eat at T-Mobile Park.  

Now we're covering Seattle for Seasoned Visitors, just in time for your Thanksgiving and Christmas friends and family from out of town.

It is officially the holiday season! You've probably got family and friends visiting you in Seattle soon. If they've already been here a time or two they've seen the Space Needle and the gum wall already. Here's a list of adventures to seek out with Seasoned Seattle Visitors!

{Life and Links} is a new feature here at Figs and Flights. A few weeks ago I shared my tips, tricks, and favorite products for Falling into Halloween. I loved it and it seemed that you readers did, too. 

The motto here at Figs and Flights is "life fueled by food and travel." {Life + Links} is how I'll share my lists for creating a calm, happy, fulfilling life between the food and travel adventures. It will focus on day to day life. The themes will vary seasonally, include tips and tricks and my favorite items aka the stuff that's so good I need to share it with you. 

Some of the links that I provide will take you will connect you to Amazon while others will not. Here's what I want you to know about the things I'm recommending to you:

• I will only recommend items that I use regularly and that I absolutely LOVE
• When you buy something with Amazon via Figs and Flights I will get a small commission so THANKS for shopping that with me
• I'd love to hear what you think about something I've recommended! Shoot me an email or tag me on Instagram to show off your favorite new thing.

Mornings are a peaceful and productive time for me. It wasn't always this way, though.

I caught a small glimmer of myself as a morning person in college on days when I had a test. My routine was to get up EXTRA SUPER early and camp out in a coffee shop. I'd spend several hours there cramming, fueled by plenty of caffeine and a bagel with cream cheese, before a test. I'd take the test, go to my other classes, then head home and nap like a true college champ. Other than those really productive test-day mornings I didn't really do mornings back then.

Mornings began to feel like a ticking time bomb as soon as I started working full time. I'd run out the door with wet hair, without eating breakfast or having packing a lunch, feeling totally disheveled and unprepared for the day. I really admired people who showed up to work looking and seeming ready for the day rather than being smacked over the head by it! How did they do that?

I didn't set out to find the key to mellow mornings but I did! Here are a few ways I learned to make a better morning routine for myself. 

We'd hoped to catch the Grand Opening of Stewbum & Stonewall Brewing Company while we visiting Honolulu last month. The brewery was not ready to open, officially, but that didn't stop me from getting in and planning a Figs and Flights {event}.