We spent 55 wonderful nights in Budapest during the first leg of our journey – nine in early June and 46 in July/August. It was more than enough time to fall head over heels in love with the city and experience it as a second home. Here is my “Liszt” (composer pun!) of things I…
Category: Europe
Anniversary in Paris
Soon after deciding to spend the summer in Europe, Chad and I agreed that it would be fun to celebrate our anniversary in Paris. Eight years ago we celebrated our 8th anniversary in Paris, so I thought this could be the start of a new tradition – every 8th anniversary in Paris (see you in…
FAQ – What Have We Learned Halfway through our Europe Leg?
A few days ago, we hit the halfway point of our 116 days in Europe and today we’re at the halfway point of our six-week stay in Budapest, so it is time again to take stock of what we’ve learned. We’re at a very different point than when I wrote about what we learned after…
Starý Smokovec and the High Tatras
At the end of June, Chad and I spent three wonderful days hiking in the High Tatras mountains. We planned the stop based on seeing that Slovakia is between Poland and Hungary, doing a little research on best of Slovakia, and wanting to get some time away from cities knowing we’d be spending the rest…
Wroclaw: Gnome is Where the Heart Is
A sort of strange confluence of events/interests (explanation below) brought us to Wroclaw and I’m so glad they did. It is an adorable, quirky, friendly, fun city and we had a fantastic week. Here are some of my favorite things about Wroclaw: The Gnomes! Or are they dwarves? What is the difference between gnomes and…
Budapest: We’re Home!
At long last (37 days to be exact) we have arrived at our home base in Budapest! We’ll be here for six wonderful, relaxing, mostly travel-free weeks. I’m so excited to be here that I’ve skipped writing about three destinations we visited – Berlin, Wroclaw and the High Tatras mountains – to rhapsodize about finally…
FAQ – What have we learned from a month on the road?
This week Chad and I celebrated our 1-month anniversary of traveling. We’ve already learned a lot in our short time on the road so far. Here is a brief summary. Busses aren’t that bad Our most frequent method of getting from city to city in the past month has been by bus. Busses are a…
Budapest versus Prague
I thought it would be fun to write a comparison post about our week in Budapest in our Airbnb (aka, Budapest 1.0) and our week in Prague. Also, I am very behind on blogging, so this is a way to write about both in one post! Here is my breakdown comparing these two full-week stays…
Budapest Beta
Our Time with Brain Bar We’re calling our time at the conference “Budapest Beta” since it is a prequel to Budapest as the launch of this new lifestyle. Attending Brain Bar certainly shaped our introduction to Budapest. The organizers had kindly sent a person to the bus station to pick us up (we may have…
Vienna Sonata
Exposition Our connecting flight from Iceland landed in Frankfurt, Germany – the closest city to Budapest that WOW Air flies to. I gave us two nights in Frankfurt to get over our jetlag, explore a bit of the city and (ironically) allow time for delayed luggage to catch up with us. The irony, of course,…