Andy and I did very little research about Naples before we arrived. I think we just decided it was a famous Italian city, and we were headed from Bologna to the Amalfi Coast, so it seemed like a reasonable stop. There are plenty of things to do in Naples, and we soon discovered there are […]
My need to tick things off a list is dwindling, but I do still like going to a new country. And a tiny country that’s completely surrounded by another country? How could I pass up vising there? After spending a couple days in Nice, Andy and I arrived in Rimini, Italy and took a day […]
The only night Andy and I didn’t have booked into an apartment, hotel or hostel was the night we traveled from Brussels, Belgium to Nice, France. In the planning stages of the trip, we decided to try the night train, which runs from Paris to Nice. The last time I was on a night train […]
Andy and I didn’t have too much planned for our time in Luxembourg, but we knew we wanted to go to the town of Vianden and see the castle. The town is about an hour outside of Luxembourg City and easily reached by a train and a bus. The castle itself sits high up on […]
Carcassonne is a town in France, near Toulouse, which is famous for its old walled city and castle. I had never even heard of it, but Andy has a board game that’s based on this castle, so he wanted to go. What started as a long weekend in Barcelona morphed into a 10 day trip […]
Izmir was never on our itinerary. Even though we left the majority of our time in Turkey open to flexibility, we had a pretty good idea of where we wanted to go, so adding another destination wasn’t something we even considered. But when our journey across the western half of Turkey took us to Izmir, […]
When I was 16 I visited Heidelberg on a school-organized trip to Europe, but I can hardly remember anything about that particular stop on the 10 day whirlwind through Germany, Austria, Italy, and Switzerland. Now that I’m living in Germany, I had been telling Andy for quite some time that I wanted to go back […]
Dear Prague, I had been looking forward to meeting you for quite some time. I had heard so many great things from others who had visited, but I couldn’t manage to get there myself. At least, not as soon as I wanted. But when I finally arrived, you swept me off my feet. The ornate […]