May is the best time to be in Paris which is why I’m very happy to be back home after spending most of April on the road. I’m also happy to announce I won’t be going anywhere this month! It’s time to catch up on work and prepare for my summer travels.

April was a great month with a fantastic road trip to the Netherlands for the Keukenhof flower festival followed by a brief stop in Cologne for a little shopping and R&R.

Cologne Love Locks

Then I got the train down to Italy where I stayed in an amazing apartment in Rome courtesy of House Trip. I’ll be writing more about the trip later this month but this is the view from the master bedroom. Not bad eh?

View from our swanky apartment

After a couple of days in the Eternal City we headed to the TBU travel conference in Assisi, Umbria. It was great catching up with my travel blogger friends and meeting so many people who love travelling and blogging as much as I do. If you have a blog and write about travel then I can’t recommend this conference highly enough. You’ll learn heaps and the networking opportunities are unbeatable. The next TBU conference is in September and early bird tickets are available now.

Travel bloggers conference in Assisi, Umbria

As part of the TBU conference, Umbria Tourism and Umbria on the Blog organised 2 day blog trips so we could explore the region. I went to the medieval towns of Gubbio and Citta di Castello so look out for upcoming posts about that.

Medieval highrise in Gubbio

Seeing I will be in Paris all month long, I’m free to meet up with anyone living in Paris or just passing through. Let me know if you want to meet up. :)