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 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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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, …
Doing It On The Road 