Blast to the Past: Girlfriend Getaway

ByAlexandra Canedo

Girlfriend getaways are unique for each group of gals. From surf trips, to beauty spas, to museums, there’s a trip for everyone! Today we have a trip just for the history buffs of your pack!

Blast to the Past Getaway

Where: Williamsburg Colonial Town

When: Year-long

What: The perfect history buff’s vacation, this colonial town is full of activities, historical monuments, and great wine! The Colonial Gardens Bed & Breakfast offers a historical package to bring you back in time, called the History Buff Package.

The Colonial Gardens is a beautiful guesthouse dating back to the 1700s. It’s the perfect place to accompany a history-filled week with your gals.

Some highlights:

  • Tickets to Colonial Williamsburg, Historic Jamestowne, Jamestown Settlement, Yorktown Battlefield and Yorktown Victory Center for up to seven consecutive days
  • Lunch at Williamsburg Winery with a tour and tasting
  • Gourmet breakfast each morning

Find more information here.

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Sitting at her grandmother's typewriter, Alexandra has been concocting stories since she first learned to write. Upgrading from fairytales and ghost stories, Alexandra now prefers to write about travel, her other love. First inspired by the books she read growing up, Alexandra has been traveling since she ditched her piggy bank and started saving money in a real bank at fifteen.

Alexandra is currently finishing her degree in Journalism, Public Relations, and Spanish at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo after studying in Madrid, Spain. Now back in the USA, she is plotting her next adventure.

Favorite Travel Moments:
1. Dancing salsa every week in Spain
2. Doing the limbo in a tiny bar in Sevilla
3. Watching the sunset in Santorini
4. Bungy jumping off the Corinth Canal in Greece
5. Feeling like a princess at afternoon tea in London
6. Beach-hopping in an ATV across Naxos, Greece
7. Herding (i.e. chasing) sheep on the hills of Donegal, Ireland
8. Eating pastries in Portugal
9. Laying on the beach in San Sebastian with chorizo bocadillos
10. Staying out until the sun comes up because "that's the way it is"
11. Going to the Vienna Zoo and watching the sea lions be fed...only to find out we were in a "splash zone" and couldn't get out
12. Good conversations with new friends

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One Comment

  1. I loved this trip! I went with a friend and we were so goofy! I wish I had shopped so much more – and I wish I had bought multiples of what I did buy! Great trip – thanks for the dug up memeory!

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