Tales from Hans Christian Anderson have been embedded within us since childhood, so it’s very difficult to not start singing when you think of this spellbinding city. We went to Denmark during July 2018 when we were en route from Sweden to Prague, and because we were sticking with a $50/day for both of us budget, we didn’t last long…
As we exited the bustling cities and zippy drivers, the second half of our New England road trip definitely rolled into a more pleasurable pace. In fact, it felt like every time we slowed our speedometer to 25 mph, we would roll into another small town draped in quintessential charm oozing vibes of the UK, blended with a delicious and…
Our New England road trip was two weeks long and an absolute whirlwind. Certainly not anywhere on the spectrum of our typical “slow travel” preferences. It took us to 12 states, many of which were Greg's firsts, and allowed Mandy to get her official membership to the 50-stataterian club as she checked off Vermont. It took us to prestigious Ivy…
Needless to say, 2020 was not in any way the year we expected or even thought plausible. Travel or otherwise. Originally, on our 2 year around-the-world trip started in June 2018, and had planned to wrap up in November 2020. We even went so far as to prepurchase our one-way tickets from New Zealand to LA. After touching down we…
After a 10-year Pacific Northwest hiatus, it was finally time to be reunited with the city where it all began...where Greg spent seven years of his life as a professor at Charles University before meeting Mandy in 2007, who had recently moved there to be an English teacher. See that story. We were more than ready to return...to be wrapped…
Our favorite thing to do when we lived in Prague was leave the city behind, often via the wonder paths of the Czech trail system. Trails weave through cities, villages, pastureland, valleys and hills, natural attractions, and historic sites. All with easy-to-understand color coded trail markers that even the most navigationally challenged can follow. Geography fun fact: the Czech Republic…
There is so much more to Czechia than Prague. In fact, when we were teaching English in the mid-2000’s, it was a well-worn joke that all of our students had “a house...in the nature” and they would tell us stories about weekending in the Czech countryside, amongst emerald deciduous forests, sweeping rock formations and tinker toy villages. The nature of…
We had officially entered Moravian Czech wine country, a magical place that seems to be plucked out of the Mediterranean, and dropped into southeastern Czechia. Moravia, a lesser visited region of the country has a distinctly more Croatian/Italian feel, lightness, and warmth about it than its sister region, Bohemia. Not to mention, with a four-hour train journey between them ($10/ticket)…
