Hello – we are still here! We have just been in a bit of a travel slump lately. Actually, let me rephrase that, we have been in a travel BAN lately! We spent a large chunk of the last school year stuck in the Granada province here in Spain. Being Read more…
BIG, HUGE, GIANT DISCLAIMER: We are lazy. This trip was back at the end of 2019, pre-COVID, back when travel was possible and the thought of not easily being able to hop on a plane and go pretty much wherever we wanted was unfathomable. How many other things were unfathomable Read more…
Oh 2020, you’ve been a trip! (but not like a physical trip, since we haven’t really left our little town in more than three months…). Just like the common experience of basically all fellow inhabitants of Earth, our last few months were dominated by the pesky coronavirus, COVID-19. It is Read more…
We will take a break from our regularly scheduled programming (in our blog world, we are still enjoying a week in the snow in Finland), to share a bit about life here in Spain in the midst of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Spain has suddenly emerged as the 2nd worst Read more…
After spending the first few days of our trip to Lapland, Finland in the small town of Luosto in our log cabin (complete with sauna), we headed for the bright lights of Rovaniemi. Rovaniemi is a town of around 60,000. It is the administrative capital of Lapland, but far more Read more…
After months of travel around South America, we were back in Europe but we felt like we had one final trip in us before our big 2019 Travel Year was over. We had a few criteria in mind: we wanted to end our big travel adventure with a bang; we Read more…
Last you heard from us, we were on the (almost) southern tip of a continent in the southern hemisphere. Now, just like that, we are back “home”, plopped straight into winter in the northern hemisphere. Now don’t get us wrong, we loved South America and we have (almost) nothing but Read more…
Our last stop in South America was Buenos Aires, Argentina. Our expectations of the city were lowered because one of our traveling family friends spoke quite badly of it – huge city, nine lane roads to cross etc. etc. However, we stayed in the Palermo neighborhood, which was a little Read more…
Our second stop in Uruguay would also be our last stop in Uruguay, and our second-to-last stop on our whole South American adventure. We’ve been to a lot of amazing places in the continent and enjoyed both roads – the one more traveled and the one less traveled. In Uruguay, Read more…
One of our family travel sayings (in addition to our one about the Dutch: “everywhere you go, there they are” – seriously, those dutch get EVERYWHERE) is that there are ‘living’ cities and ‘visiting’ cities. It’s not completely binary, but more of a fluid spectrum and based entirely on our Read more…