Flock Travel Co.

09/01/2026

I said broo-SHEH-tah for the first 22 years of my life. Out loud. In restaurants. With total confidence.

Then, I left to study abroad in Florence (Firenze), Italy.

My class schedule didn't leave room for actual Italian language lessons, so I went to the informal sessions at the study center instead. In our first session, we learned the basics. Hello. Goodbye. Please. Thank you. But not long after... Bruschetta came up, because apparently we were all butchering it and they'd seen this movie before.

The "sch" is a hard K. Every time, no exceptions.

Once you learn that how different letter combinations behave and sound within a language, you start reading signs instead of guessing at them. You order off a menu without pointing. You pronounce the town you're trying to get to well enough that someone can actually help you.

You don't need fluency, although it's nice. You need enough information to get by.

So, what word have you been butchering for a big part of your life? Comment below.

08/18/2026

08/18/2026

Imagine this: instead of the same reservation you made last year, you and your person wake up on a balcony in Florence with nowhere to be.

Or maybe it is a quiet Michelin dinner in Paris. Or a long weekend in Barcelona, wandering somewhere new together with nothing on the calendar but each other.

That is the difference between marking the day and actually experiencing it. New scenery removes the routine. There is nothing to plan, nothing to manage, just the two of you somewhere worth remembering.

If a long weekend away for Valentine's Day 2027 sounds like the upgrade your relationship deserves, send me a DM and I would love to talk through options.

Now is the time to start planning for February 2027.

08/11/2026

Five cities in ten days sounds impressive until you realize you never actually saw any of them. Just the inside of a train and whatever pastry was closest to the platform.

This is the trap of "country collecting." You come home with a passport full of stamps and a memory full of transit schedules, not the city itself.

I plan trips the opposite way: fewer places, longer stays, and enough breathing room to actually notice where you are. That is not a compromise. It is the whole point.

If you had to pick just one European city to slow down in for a full week, which one would it be? Comment below.

08/04/2026

Couples rarely ask what a travel advisor actually does. Most of the time, they don't notice anything at all. They are just having a great time together, which is exactly the point. You only notice travel logistics when something goes wrong, so the goal is to make sure you never do.

That is the version of the trip where someone already confirmed the tour actually runs that day, already followed up to make sure every reservation is still holding, already smoothed out the logistics you would have never known to worry about.

You do not need to see any of that for it to be the reason your time together felt effortless.

What is the one thing you would love to never have to think about on your next trip? Comment below

07/24/2026

For those of you who haven't requested your copy of my Barcelona city guide yet, you can access it here: https://flocktravelco.myflodesk.com/yw0ew35s2y

Before I left for Barcelona, so many of you shared your top recommendations. That generosity shaped how we planned our days, and I wanted to come back and return the favor.

I had so many wonderful experiences from my time there that not all of it made it into the city guide. DM me anytime, and I'd be happy to share even more specific recommendations with you directly. Plus, I'd genuinely love to hear from you.

07/23/2026

Barcelona is officially one of my favorite cities in Europe, and I've created a city guide to share what I learned with you. DM me "Barcelona" and I'll send you a copy.

07/22/2026

Barcelona is officially one of my favorite cities in Europe, and I've created a city guide to share what I learned with you.

Antoni Gaudí's work was the reason I wanted to go to Barcelona in the first place.

I studied interior design, so architecture has always been something I notice and appreciate wherever I go. But Gaudí has had a pull on me for as long as I can remember, and I'm not sure I can fully explain why. There's something about the surrealism, the way his buildings seem to exist outside of ordinary logic. Maybe it's because I spend so much of my life being detail-oriented and deadline-driven, and there's something freeing about an aesthetic that throws the rulebook out entirely.

Whatever the reason, I'd been wanting to see it in person for years, and finally experiencing his works was everything I'd hoped for. But there's so much more to Barcelona than that. The people are wonderful, the food is delicious, and the neighborhoods are perfect for getting lost in and finding the cutest local shops.

I put together a city guide based on my time there because I loved Barcelona enough to want other people to love it too. It's everything I learned, straight from experiencing it myself.

Comment "Barcelona" below to get my city guide.

07/20/2026

Never cruised before?

Not all cruise lines are created equal, and the difference between the right one and the wrong one is not subtle. It shows up in the food, the dress code, the onboard atmosphere, the shore excursion philosophy, the passenger demographic, and about a dozen other details that are very hard to unknow once you're standing on the wrong ship in the middle of the ocean or drifting down a river in Europe.

A first sailing sets the tone for how someone feels about cruising in general. Book the wrong line and you've potentially written off an entire style of travel that might have suited you perfectly on a different ship.

DM me before you book. One conversation is all it takes, and I'll tell you exactly which line fits who you actually are as a traveler.

07/15/2026

I have clients boarding a river cruise this week, one I started designing months ago.

Most of my clients are busy. They don't have the bandwidth to compare transfer options, research which hotel actually suits how they like to travel, or think through what the final hours of an eleven-day trip should feel like. And they shouldn't have to.

Two travelers could book the same cruise, the same cabin category, even similar hotels. And still come home with completely different trips. The difference is everything that happens between the big decisions: how a transfer is arranged, why one hotel is chosen over another, whether the final hours of the trip are as thought through as the first.

That's the part a booking engine can't give you, and it's the part I handle so my clients don't have to.

Have you ever considered a river cruise like this one? If the idea has been sitting in the back of your mind, let's talk about what it could look like for you. DM me, or book a consultation through the link in my bio.