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 …
Category: Travel
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 …
The Budapest Quick Tour
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 …
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, …
Swimming Between Continents
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 …
It Has Been a Busy Few Days
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, …
Seven years in Blogland
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 Use the Term “Planning” Loosely
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 …
Doing It On The Road 