Whistle Stop Tour of Spain
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 Read more…
Lapland, Finland…the Highlight!
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 Read more…
Post Quarantine Update from Spain
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 Read more…
Quarantined in Spain – What a difference a week makes!
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 Read more…
Visiting Santa’s Home Turf in Lapland, Finland
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. Read more…
Snow, Santa and Cynicism in Luosto, Finland
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 Read more…
The University and Harry Potter in Oxford, England
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, Read more…
Last Stop in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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, Read more…
The Road More Traveled in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay
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 Read more…
‘Living’ in Montevideo, Uruguay
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 Read more…
