Brews, Bruges & A New Family Greg and beer go together like wine and cheese, peanut butter and jam or strawberries and cream. But not just any ‘ol beer. As a former home brewer with a full-scale* operation in our basement, and full-time beer aficionado from the Beervana Capital of the US (Portland), beer for him is an absolute experience…a…
The first time in this city, Mandy was sick. The second time she got her first case of bed bugs. We could only hope that the third time in Romania's capital would be a charm. And it was! But, perhaps that was just uh...Christmas? When we went to Bucharest in December 2022, we had spent Christmases in the States, Sri…
Watching the Purr-fect President on the Black Sea It's a rare moment when you get to be in the presence of a loyal, cuddly and honest president, but we hit the lottery with Domnule Presedinte in Constanta. DP, or Mr. President, was the housesitting gift we received from Annie, an American who had been running a non-profit to help Roma…
From Verona, we hopped in a BlaBla car with three other people for 14€ total to head 1.5 hours to a town most known for its Milan-based airport…Bergamo. It would have cost 20 by bus so this was the best deal, plus ride sharing is always way more interesting. (Side note: We have yet to figure out why this oh-so-obvious…
Ahhhh….fair Verona, where we laid out backpacks. Indeed, Shakespeare chose quite the alluring set for his tragic love saga of “Romeo & Juliet.” Funnily, we learned on our free walking tour that in fact, Shakespeare had never even visited fair Verona. Ah well, guess he got lucky. And so did we. What would follow during our three days in Verona,…
Somehow we landed in Italia. To be honest, it’s not somewhere either of us had been rushing to return to after our initial separate forays in our 20’s. Neither one of us had extraordinary experiences back then. To be honest, they were both a bit sour, but granted, we had only waded into the most touristed places possible…Rome, Venice and…
We liked Egypt. We didn’t love Egypt. But Dahab, a hippie haven coastal community on the Gulf of Aqaba side of the Sinai Peninsula, was quite a different story. Dahab has notes of Goa, India, Pokhara, Nepal and Aqaba, Jordan all wrapped into one tidy little package, which is undoubtedly why so many, mostly younger, digital nomad Europeans flock here…
When we pulled into the GoBus station in Luxor, we expected to be battered from all angles by taxi drivers. And while they were indeed persistent, we’ve experienced way worse in other places. But fortunately, as we swooped down to fetch our under-bus bags, one of those drivers, a quite young one, revealed our What’s App profile photo on his…
