Surviving My First Week of Teaching English in Spain
I survived my first week as a language assistant teaching English in Spain after a year and a half of not “working” in the traditional sense. But I was anxious!
3 Warm Winter Destinations & 3 Cool Winter Activities
As winter will be quickly approaching in the coming months, I’ve already put on my winter thinking cap for travel plans and activities during the cold months.
The World Outgames: Your Next Gay Travel Destination
We love to use special events as reasons to check out new travel destinations and wrote an article for GayTravel.com about traveling for the World OutGames.
Travel Reflections: How Close Are We to Returning to the US?
A fellow travel blogger recently posted a link on Facebook to this page: The Travel Experience In 35 Gifs: From Quitting At Home To Shitting Abroad (take a look!). Auston and I about shit our pants laughing at them. For us, they were about 90% accurate and 200% hilarious. Nothing explains trying to get your travel visas sorted out better than Bruce Willis crawling through an air duct with a lighter as his guide in “Die Hard”. In fact, that was our exact experience when applying for our Indian visas. Then we died laughing at the GIF expressing what it’s like to introduce yourself to the people you meet abroad over and over and over and OVER again.
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.