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 …
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A Couple of Watery Weekends
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 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 …
Food, Glorious (Greek) Food
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 …
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 …
A Walk in the Park and Some Special Effects
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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Czeching Some Touristy Stuff Off the List
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 …
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, …
Doing It On The Road 