Wednesday June 3rd: Beaune (Burgundy Wine Region) We head into Beaune early to go to their daily market. We browse through the usual stalls of meats and cheeses. There are a few interesting stalls of homemade soap or hand carved wooden spoons. We eye some delicious looking raspberries (framboise) and we opt for a small … Continue reading 3 – 6 June: Burgundy & Beaujolais
Monday May 25th – Reims & Champagne Region We wake early in the car, doing cardio in the rest stop before eating breakfast. I wash my hair in the ice-cold water from the sink, before we use our GPS to try to find a route to Reims (pronounced Rahnce), which is centered in France’s Champagne … Continue reading 25 – 27 May: Champagne & Luxembourg
Saturday 23rd – Paris, Versaille, Carrefour Parking Lot We wake after our last night at our Air BnB in Paris. Today we pick up our Peugeot rental car. We have opted to use the French “Buy-Back” program from USA and Canadian citizens. This entails “Leasing” and car (for 17-days or more) from a French car … Continue reading May 23 – May 24: Versailles & Disneyland!
13 May: Wednesday After a restless night on our overnight bus from Sarande back to Athens, we arrive in Athens at 6 in the morning. We are here for 24 hours, another brief sojourn to see our friends Jackie, Kimon and little Bela before we head to Paris. We make our way to an Everest … Continue reading 13 – 22 May: From Albania to Paris, with a lot of Paris
When we tell people we are coming to Albania for an entire month, we receive a variety of very interesting reactions. From most people, friends and family back home, the first reaction is: Where is Albania? The other common question we’ve received is: Why would you go there? Typically, this inquiry is uttered with a … Continue reading A Month in Albania – 13 April – 12 May
Welcome to Thailand of the storybooks. Welcome to the Thailand that the Farangs (aka Westerners) fall in love with. The mountains, smiles, flowing rivers and small villages that pepper the landscape. Welcome to the former Kingdom of Lanna, in the North. Literally: welcome to the kingdom of a million rice paddies. This year of travel, … Continue reading 17 – 26 February: Motorbiking in Lanna to Burma
As we’ve settled into a routine, the days become less filled with intensity and we spread out a bit, enjoying the warmth of the sun on our tropical Island. We almost forget that there is a blog and a readership waiting (eagerly, I am sure), the next blog post talking about how we’ve reached enlightenment, … Continue reading 19 January – 5 February 2015: Koh Phangan, Thailand
On Saturday, we wake up early, our host having never arrived back at the apartment the night before. He has convinced us to let him drive us (for 17euro) to Bruges. He has some errand to run, and apparently would prefer to make some money off of us for gas. We pack up our stuff … Continue reading 20 – 22 December 2014 Brussels to Bruges
Wednesday December 17th – Rome to Brussels Easier transfer from Italy to Brussels than from Budapest to Italy. Still an early morning, but 5:45AM not 2:45AM. Then we only had one bus to the flight to one other bus. We awoke and ate the last of our food we had bought. We had been told … Continue reading December 17-19th Brussels, Belgium
Holy buckets, Rome is overwhelming. It’s big, it’s Italian, and it’s not Germanic. So what does that feel like? Be prepared that everything I am about to say are generalized observations and in no way fully capture the amazing places we have been. With that, the Middle Europe countries that we were in previously are … Continue reading 13 December – 16 December: ROME
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