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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
I know it has been a while since we posted, we left Panama at the end of May and visited family and friends for most of June. Last Thursday, June 26th, we took our leave from Chicago and boarded a flight to Iceland. We are taking 10 days of vacation to see Iceland and Svalbard, …
Today marks seven years since we started our blog and to “celebrate” that anniversary we pulled out our old school method of planning a trip Morocco - we were so young in 2017! Our first trip together was prior to this blog, we took a three week trip to Morocco. Sue found some super cheap …
We left Buenos Aires about 10 days ago for the tropical climes of Costa Rica. You can't help but be relaxed when the sun is always shining and the pool is always inviting. We met my brother David and sister-in-law Stacey at a lovely AirBnB on a mountain overlooking the Pacific. Aaaah. The only hitch …
We seem to have fallen into a routine in our blogs where we talk about what is happening now or has just happened. I thought I would take time to give you some insights into how we decide to go places, why we pick them and how much effort we (read mostly Sue) spends figuring …
Friday night, Sue and I went out to a restaurant that we thought was Indian food, but really turned out to be mostly Thai. The food was good, but not what we expected (I guess I hadn't really thought about it, because I was surprised when I read this). We had tried to get reservations …
Happy New Year everyone. Our return from Ushuaia was uneventful and we have settled back into our temporary home in Buenos Aires. The couple of weeks around Christmas and New Year have not been very busy for work but I am gearing up for all the end of year stuff that needs to be done …
Doing It On The Road 