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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Doing It On The Road 