When in Greece, you have to go to the water and we did. Our last full weekend, we decided to rent a car and head to Nafplio, the first capital of Greece and a very cute old city in the Peloponnese region on the Argolic Gulf. It's about a two-hour drive from Athens and has …
A couple of weeks ago, when we first arrived in Athens, my cousin (some number of times removed or something like that) Carol and I went on a food tour. Yum! Greek food is well suited to my diet, and really anyone's, according to me. We booked through Viator and the tour was called "Small-Group …
We don't often do a three-day tour of a place that probably warrants more because we have the luxury of taking the time, but we decided to squeeze Budapest in on Labor Day weekend — between Prague and Athens. An extra day would have been good, but you just can't do everything. We arrived Friday …
Prague is dotted by lovely parks, in fact, we live across the street from one of them, but Saturday, we decided to take the A train cross town (yes, our line is the A train -- there are only three to choose from) and head to a large park called Šárka Nature Park (Přírodní park …
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Hey, sorry about that, I couldn't resist. It could be worse. I could be listening to the SEO experts and writing headlines that all sound exactly like this: Top 10 Best Tourist Sites in Prague You Can't Miss. Snore. Anyway, we did spend some time hitting those spots since the last blog. Kafka's head Last …
On Saturday morning we waved goodbye to Helsinki, a city we thoroughly enjoyed for its ease of living. We even got brave enough to swim in Vanhankaupunginselkä (or the bay that formed the gorgeous view from our apartment). We had just assumed the water would be freezing because, after all, it is very far north, …
Sorry! I couldn't resist. I think Steven's influence is taking over (an excellent joke!) As you may have figured from that groanable title, we spent the weekend in Tallinn, Estonia. Tallinn isn't a place we spent a lot of time thinking about, but it's a two-hour ferry ride directly south across the Gulf of Finland. …
We decided to come to Helsinki on a whim. We'd never really spent much time in Scandinavia, so, why not? That about sums up our decision-making. Surprise! We really like it (in the summer when it's light most of the time). First off, it's entirely walkable and has an excellent public transportation system. We have …
The Iceland Adventure Continues Sunday morning, we woke up on time, but I was a minute late because we had to have coffee and bagels and things just take a bit longer than you think they will. Maybe I was stalling a tad because I was a wee bit nervous about swimming between the continents …
What? you ask. The Pacific is west in the Western Hemisphere, everyone knows that! Well, not if you're in Panama, which runs east-west and happens to contain the narrowest point (51 miles) between the Atlantic (well,technically the Caribbean) and the Pacific making it attractive for digging a canal. It didn't hurt that the U.S. already …
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