Our departure from the U.S. this time included closing the book on one part of our life that has been there since we met. In 2009, long before I met Sue, I bought a very shiny, dark red Saab 93 convertible. It was first my, then our go to car. Sue had a very sensible …
Author: Steven
I am a money grubbing capitalist pig, but actually not very good it. I am 20 lbs overweight, but go the gym reasonably often. I have absolutely no concept of how hard the things I want to do are…until I have agreed to do them. I've got a couple of adult kids who live far away and a career that has me sitting at a desk all day.
Things is like: baseball, a really good gin & tonic, my convertible, and warm weather.
Things I am not so keen on: heights, overpriced food and having nothing to do.
Wine, Walk and Cannons
The weekend came a day early for us. Stephanie—(quick digression, you see that "dash" just to the left? Sue will tell you that it is an em dash, (I will tell you that because it is; this – is an en dash and this - is a hyphen) and I never never never use them …
A Whole Week in a Few Paragraphs
One of our friends asked ChatGPT (or a similar tool) to describe our blog. Apparently it said that we were slow travelers. I took that to mean that we stayed in places for a relatively long time and became comfortable in those places (to my family members who are no doubt thinking that it probably …
The Start of Our Long Stay in Valencia
We arrived one week ago today. It is the start of a one-year, and maybe longer, stay experiment, who knows. Last year we decided that we wanted to move to Valencia for a somewhat indeterminant amount of time. We tried to do this a couple of years ago, but the bureaucracy simply ground us down …
It Has Been a While…
It has been forever since we have written a post. Sorry everyone, sometimes life gets in the way and we lose a bit of momentum to keep up with the blog. A Quick Recap Since our last post, we left Athens and headed to England, with a quick stop in Valencia to set up a …
A Walk Around the Acropolis
A week ago Saturday we decided that we would take it easy. We started by walking from our AirBnB to the National Garden. It is one of the few large green spaces in Athens, but it was not what we expected. We thought it was going to be a botanic gardens with curated displays of …
Our First Few Days in Athens
We arrived in Athens after a quick flight from Budapest on Monday afternoon. The cities could not be more different. Budapest is very green with mid-age and younger buildings set around the meandering Danube. It is a stately European city with wide streets and lots of green space. Athens is hot, dry, seemly unplanned and …
Our Penultimate Weekend in Prague
Last weekend was our penultimate weekend in Prague. We decided to visit Prague Castle on Saturday morning, and after reading some reviews, we bought advanced tickets online. We didn't realize that we bought tickets through some sort of broker, and had to pick them up at a storefront in the old town. This wasn't a …
Four Years and Counting
It has now been exactly four years since we kicked off The Happy Idiots tour by traveling to catsit for Seuss in Paris. Wow, time flies when you are having fun. We have done so much, seen so many incredible places , learned a few (or maybe a lot) of lessons the hard way and …
24 Hours of Sunlight
Tuesday morning we left Iceland and headed for Svalbard with an overnight stay at the Oslo airport. The flight from Reykjavik to Oslo was thoroughly uneventful and we stayed at an airport hotel, which was also perfectly uninteresting but very convenient. Wednesday morning we boarded our SAS flight to Longyearbyen with a stop in Tromsø, …
