As a home base for a few days, we settled into the normally sleepy town of Hondarribia on the Spanish side of the border with France.
We say normally sleepy because a wakeup call had shaken the city into a flurry of activity… CONTINUE READING >>
As a home base for a few days, we settled into the normally sleepy town of Hondarribia on the Spanish side of the border with France.
We say normally sleepy because a wakeup call had shaken the city into a flurry of activity… CONTINUE READING >>
We’ve got nothing against theme parks. In fact, we happily took our kids to Orlando for an exhilarating visit to Disney World and Epcot years ago and had a fantastic family vacation, but our memories are mostly of tiny hands excitedly pulling us from one wild ride to the next.
Now that they are all grown up and on their own, we have the opportunity to explore the city at a more relaxing pace and see the more adult side of …
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We’ve got nothing against theme parks. In fact, we happily took our kids to Orlando for an exhilarating visit to Disney World and Epcot years ago and had a fantastic family vacation, but our memories are mostly of tiny hands excitedly pulling us from one wild ride to the next.
Now that they are all grown up and on their own, we have the opportunity to explore the city at a more relaxing pace and see the more adult side of …
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One of our favorite things about traveling is finding unknown gems. It is always a thrill for us to discover a city that is not famous as a tourist destination and explore its charms.
In Holland, Arnhem certainly captured that…
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One of our favorite things about traveling is finding unknown gems. It is always a thrill for us to discover a city that is not famous as a tourist destination and explore its charms.
In Holland, Arnhem certainly captured that…
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Berlin is not all that close to the sea, so as cruise passengers sailing the Baltic we had to ride the rails to visit the German capital.
We immediately gravitated to perhaps the most famous part of the Wall, Dmitri Vrubel’s picture of… CONTINUE READING >>
Berlin is not all that close to the sea, so as cruise passengers sailing the Baltic we had to ride the rails to visit the German capital.
We immediately gravitated to perhaps the most famous part of the Wall, Dmitri Vrubel’s picture of… CONTINUE READING >>
The quaint little seaside resort town is très French, mixing with its Basque heritage. In the fifteen hundreds it was home to a fleet of fearsome corsairs… CONTINUE READING >>
The quaint little seaside resort town is très French, mixing with its Basque heritage. In the fifteen hundreds it was home to a fleet of fearsome corsairs… CONTINUE READING >>
Stavanger was an unexpected surprise!
The home of Scandinavia’s largest food festival (you KNOW we took full advantage of that!), the best-kept wooden houses in all of Northern Europe (so uberquaint), an obsession with pony rides, and the birthplace of a modern technology – all make for…CONTINUE READING >>
Stavanger was an unexpected surprise!
The home of Scandinavia’s largest food festival (you KNOW we took full advantage of that!), the best-kept wooden houses in all of Northern Europe (so uberquaint), an obsession with pony rides, and the birthplace of a modern technology – all make for…CONTINUE READING >>
Blue skies above the White City of the North!Explore with your GypsyNesters a church carved inside a gigantic rock, a huge sculpture that proves music is a visual art, lovely domed architecture, and what has to be the most surprisingly elegant Burger King on the planet… CONTINUE READING >>
Blue skies above the White City of the North!
Explore with your GypsyNesters a church carved inside a gigantic rock, a huge sculpture that proves music is a visual art, lovely domed architecture, and what has to be the most surprisingly elegant Burger King on the planet… CONTINUE READING >>
