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…]
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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…]
Széchenyi Thermal Baths in Budapest
There’s something wonderfully relaxing about being immersed in hot water with your head sticking up into frigidly cold air. We discovered this a few years [Read More…]
Budapest. Oh, My.
I’ve wound up in a “live blogging” mode where I wake up and realize a new blog is due out and I have to whip [Read More…]