UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 6 Oct 2006 | Views [199]
Our time here in Europe is starting to wind down, but before we left, there were a few more places that we had yet to see. This trip began as more of an excuse to see friends, but that really enabled to get to some places that we did not expect ... Read more >
Tags: The Planning Phase
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 19 Aug 2006 | Views [393]
Now that we’ve been settled in Edinburgh for a while, we’ve had a chance to really get to know this town, and what a great town it is. Edinburgh is Scotland’s capital and 2 nd largest city. With only about 500,000 people, it has all the great ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
SWITZERLAND | Thursday, 22 Jun 2006 | Views [400]
The last time we visited the Swiss Alps it was the middle of winter and the snowfall was being measured in meters—not exactly ideal hiking weather. As beautiful as it was in February, being in the Alps in the summer was amazing. The snow had retreated ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
ITALY | Thursday, 30 Mar 2006 | Views [475] | Comments [1]
After a week in Greece we were planning to spend another week in Italy visiting the smaller towns as we made our way back to Spain. Our first stop was the town of Salerno. Salerno is in southern Italy about an hour from Naples. It sits with ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
ITALY | Friday, 24 Mar 2006 | Views [1800] | Comments [1]
Any trip to Italy just isn’t complete without going to Rome. Rome, however, is just another large city with some really cool sights. Our plan was to only be in Rome long enough to see those sights, head over to Greece, and then come back to Italy ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
SPAIN | Friday, 17 Mar 2006 | Views [413] | Comments [1]
Sometimes when traveling, things don’t work out the way you plan them to. This last trip had us feeling like the Griswalds on European Vacation and at times we wondered if anything would go right at all. How bad could it be? Well, let’s start ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
HUNGARY | Tuesday, 28 Feb 2006 | Views [374]
Going to Eastern Europe is an experience neither of us will ever forget. The trip started with an overnight train from Bern, Switzerland to Budapest, Hungary. Having an armed border patrol guard pound on your door at 2 a.m. asking to see your passport ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
POLAND | Monday, 20 Feb 2006 | Views [1925] | Comments [7]
Riding on the train to Oswiecim, Poland (the site of the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camps) was an eerie experience. I couldn’t help but think that these were the very same tracks that innocent people rode to their horrible deaths just a little ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
MOROCCO | Friday, 10 Feb 2006 | Views [331]
Morocco was a country unlike any we have ever seen before. The people, the culture and the architecture in this Muslim country are far from what we are used to in “Western societies”. Being in Morocco is an overload of the senses from the sounds ... Read more >
Tags: People
SPAIN | Friday, 3 Feb 2006 | Views [323] | Comments [4]
We really lucked out with our apartment in Sevilla. Our only stipulation when looking was to find a place with a roommate who speaks Spanish. Brad, our roommate, is actually a New York native who has been living in Sevilla for 13 years. He ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
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