After two months in Spain, we had finally recovered from the constant travels of the previous six months enough to take another road trip. We hopped in the car and drove 5 1/2 hours to Portugal. We are living on a beach in Spain right now, so it seems a Read more…
Leading up to our trip to Barcelona, we were following the news on Catalonia’s independence movement very closely, since it was all happening around the time we had planned to be there. We waited until just the week before to decide if we would stop on our way through, and Read more…
After 6 months on the road, we have settled in southern Spain for the winter (or forever?!). We are enjoying the sunshine, walkable city and low cost of living. Oh, and here is the view from our apartment. Needless to say, we are enjoying our life here. However, I will Read more…
The area of Provence in France is full of amazing Roman-era architecture. In fact, Provence is so-called because of its name in Roman times, Provincia Romania, since it was Rome’s first province beyond the Alps. Our first day trip, and our second famous bridge, from our base in Avignon was the Read more…
“On the bridge of Avignon” or “Sur le pont d’Avignon” – you may be familiar with these songs. If so, I’m sure you are now singing them in your head. If not, go youtube it. We are partial to this version. So guess where we just spent a week!? This Read more…
After spending every last Swiss Franc to our name, we hopped over the border and spent a few days in Colmar, France. Colmar is in the Alsace region, very close to the border with Germany. In fact, it has been part of Germany a time or two. After a busy Read more…
Flying over glaciers, ice caves, hikes with mountain views, trails that have hammocks. If this wasn’t my favorite day of the trip, it is certainly in the top five! We booked a fairly inexpensive (for Switzerland!) Airbnb in the popular winter ski resort town of Engelberg. We chose it for Read more…
We took a few trips to the mountains while we were in Switzerland, but we also did some cool stuff outside of the mountains. This post is about the other things we saw and did in Switzerland. Olympic Museum in Lausanne We were not terribly impressed with Lausanne. The city Read more…
On our fall road trip through Europe, we spent a few days in Bruges (or Brugge, depending on whether you are speaking French or Flemish), Belgium. The beautiful city center of Bruges is a UNESCO Word Heritage site. It has a town square called Markt lined by beautiful buildings, and overlooked Read more…
We spent a few days driving around Southern England at the start of a 6-week long road trip. Based on the places we wanted to visit, I decided to rent an airbnb in a central location, and ended up in a cute little town called Manton, just outside of Marlborough, Read more…