Final Thoughts on Poland
Rick Steves, our favorite travel guru, described his first foray into Poland after the fall of the wall in dank and dreary terms. He described a [Read More…]
AuthorChuck Ros
Warsaw: The Most “American” City in Europe?
We have some catching-up to do. But as tempting as it is to glaze over our travels the last month and a half, I just [Read More…]
A Place for our Stuff
How Do You Pack for Seven Months? One of the first questions we’re asked when people find out that we’re traveling for seven months (or [Read More…]
Hangin’ With Our Poles
About a year ago I wanted to learn a lot more about a technology I was interested in, so I posted a project on guru.com [Read More…]
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp
I’ve been staring at a blank page trying to think of where to start on this blog. Or whether I should even write it. I’ve [Read More…]
Poland’s Wieliczka Salt Mine
Poles have been digging up precious metals and gems for centuries. Theirs is a mining country. In the 13th century, they discovered salt in the [Read More…]
Krakow, Poland’s Medieval Capital
Those UNESCO people really know what they’re talking about. After observing that so many of the places we have been visiting—and loving—lately (Split, Dubrovnik, Kotor) [Read More…]
Reading Between The Lines of AirBnB Reviews
As we blogged recently, AirBnB is a big part of our travel strategy. Lori pointed out in that blog that a key part of our [Read More…]
A Palacial Library in Budapest
We love libraries. We love everything about them: the smell of the books, the storehouse of knowledge, the quietness, the understated majesty and mystique of [Read More…]
Budapest’s Cat Café
If the number of tears-of-laughter inducing videos of cats doing crazy things on YouTube and Facebook are any indication, humans love their feline friends. We’re [Read More…]