Category: Europe

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A Brief and Grecian Sojourn in Thessaloniki

From Italy we flew to Thessaloniki Greece to meet the woman who was making my wedding dress. I had found someone online who lives in Thessaloniki and makes wedding dresses to sell internationally.  In...

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Ciao Bella! Italy Photos and Stories

From Australia we took our longest journey thus far to make an appointment we had with a choir in Italy. Two 10 hours flights with a 10 hour layover in China found us dazedly...

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So fresh and so clean, clean in Istanbul Turkey

Tom and I were told while we were still in Vienna about the hammams in Istanbul Turkey. The Ottoman empire placed a great emphasis on the cleanliness of body and soul. That emphasis combined...

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Veliko Tarnovo Bulgaria

Often referred to as the “City of the Tsars“, Veliko Tarnovo Bulgaria (or Велико Търново in Bulgarian) is famous as the historical capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire. I don’t think it is world-wide famous,...

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Snow Day! Bulgaria Winter Housesit

I have  learned some valuable things about about myself here during our winter housesit in Bulgaria. I most definitely enjoy a great many things about a true winter. I love eating snow, playing in...

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Magical Munich Airbnb Stay

So apparently Unicorns are real. I mean this was in the science and technology museum of Munich. No- not the mythology museum the science and technology museum. So there you have it. Irrefutable proof. This whole...

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Family Visit in Vienna Austria

Drum roll please! Metaphorical drum roll- I should be careful with what I write because if Christoph sees me requesting a drum roll he will have a classically trained percussionist at my door within minutes....

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Putting the BAR into Barcelona

The most representative photo for our stay in Barcelona is certainly not the most beautiful we have ever taken. It is not the quirky gingerbread houses and surrealist landscapes/buildings of Gaudi’s Parc Guell or...

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Spain

As Tom often reminds me “it’s all about perspective.” Landing in Spain from Cuba probably would have seemed like arriving in a cold place where we could not communicate with anyone (due to the incredibly different...

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A picture is worth 1,000 words…

Which means that this post is basically 12,000 words long. Well now 12,013. I will try to not over-do it by adding too many more. We really liked Berlin. What’s not to like about...