Happy Holidays to you! We hope you are enjoying simple pleasures, festive moments and special times with family and friends so far this season.

With all the festivities and merrymaking this time of year it’s also easy to get caught up in the frenzy of listmaking, shopping, wrapping and more. Just keeping track of all the holiday events can be stressful at times. Are you feeling it too?

When it comes to gift-giving this year we’re focusing more on experiential gifts than more ‘things’ that take up space. How about a cooking class, massage, concert series tickets or a weekend away?

At Curated Travel we are currently creating several trips that are gifts for the holidays: a multi-gen family cruise to the Caribbean for summertime, a holiday mother-daughter trip to New York City, and a romantic getaway for two to wine country. Swoon! One of our favorite ‘gift’ trips we put together this last year was a surprise Mediterranean Cruise from one sister to another. We can assure you these dear friends of ours had a fabulous time. What a fantastic gift trip and a way to make memories for a lifetime together.

Merry! Merry!

For some travel inspiration I wanted to share a few images from our travels this last year that I ran through the ‘Waterlogue’ app.

Aren’t they pretty?