“Gwen took me to Italy this summer. I’ve never been anywhere. To have Gwen to be the one to introduce me to - cause she’s been there enough to know, ‘Here’s what we need to do’. We were there for about two weeks, and it was just a trip of a lifetime.”
Blake, Pure Country Radio, November 2024
“We were in Rome when they took that picture. Gwen booked this trip, and she booked everything that we did along the way on the trip. It’s like, ‘Yeah, I do whatever, we are in Rome.’ So we get up, and it’s like, ‘Hey, today is the bicycle tour,’ and I’m going, ‘Huh, okay.’ And we go down, and our youngest, Apollo, can’t even get on the thing, and I didn’t want to get on the thing because this is my biggest fear—just that photo. I was on that thing maybe two minutes, and someone took that damn picture.”
Blake, Jimmy Kimmel Live, November 2024
Gwen: “Look how cute my husband is! You could tell, he has the energy of like, ‘My wife told me to do this.’ He had never been to Europe. I’ve been threatening him for like 9 years: ‘I’m taking you. I’m taking you. I’m taking you’. And then it was his birthday. It was my oldest’s 18th birthday, my other’s 16th birthday. I was like, ‘We’re going.’ It took like a year to plan it. I’ve never gone on a vacation like that, ever. It was really over the top. Every day was like, ‘Okay, at the lobby at 10:00 a.m. and your guide will be there to tell you about the latest whatever history that’s been happening.’”
Jimmy: “Did [Blake] like the trip?”
Gwen: “We had so much fun. If I did it again, I would definitely do less stuff.”
Jimmy: “Do you think he will do one again?”
Gwen, Jimmy Kimmel Live, October 2024
Gwen and Blake on their trip to Italy, various sources