Spain’s La Tomatina: Tips for All Those Tomatoes
Read valuable tips from our experience at La Tomatina – the annual festival and tomato fight each summer near Valencia Spain.
Visiting Antwerp By Bike
Antwerp is quite bike-friendly so we took that fact as an opportunity to explore the city by Velo bike. Even better, we signed up entirely via smartphone!
Famous Cities in Germany Worth Exploring
Planning a trip to Germany is well worth the effort. Check out these 4 famous German cities and see what you can discover in this fantastic country.
The Gayest Weekend in Antwerp, Belgium
As we exited the central train station to step into the city of Antwerp for the first time, we felt immediately wrapped in the colorful embrace of a multitude of rainbow flags. We have been to a fair number of gay pride events over the past two years – four last year and five this year which we later learned was unimpressive compared to the ten plus pride events another American expat living in Germany had attended this year – but we have never seen a city so decked out in rainbows before. You really would have thought Rainbow Brite and her gayer-than-unicorns-sidekick-horse, Starlite, had been hired to decorate the city.
Haro’s Epic Batalla del Vino
Every year on June 29, there’s a battle in Haro, Spain in the region of La Rioja where ed wine is the ammo and white clothing is the un-protective armor.
A Day Trip to Bratislava Slovakia
Check out my day trip from Vienna into Bratislava. Though a lessor known European capital, it’s the main center of Slovakia and well worth a visit.
Locked Up Luggage and Transit Strikes in Nice
We’ve been fortunate enough in our travels to have never had problems with lost luggage. It wasn’t until Nice that our time finally came!
Our Best and Worst Visa Experiences
Thus far, we’ve been to about 35 countries in the past 15 months and of those, seven have required applying for visas. Some have been as simple as getting them at the border and others have been painstaking endeavors that tested the very limits of our sanity. Exaggeration – that is not! Sometimes it was […]
“America’s Grilling Rivals”: Our Contribution to TheBoysClub.net
We’re now assisting TheBoysClub.net with their travel section of the site. Check out our latest post on America’s BBQ rivals.
Teaching English Abroad: Yes or No?
When we began our round the world trip planning, we knew we wanted to do some work with volunteer organizations which is why we worked at a school and orphanage at Casa Guatemala in Rio Dulce and at a children’s center and a farm for Volunteer Partnerships for West Africa in Ghana, but we’ve always […]