Beaches
weekly recap #32 – ometepe & playa maderas
q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. ometepe island (merida, la omaja, 3 nights), playa maderas (maderas, casa maderas, 3 nights) q. favourite meal a. chicken quesadillas in a beach shack at the far end of…
first 24 hours in playa maderas (nicaragua)
jojo: what do i like? -our first beach day since the netherlands almost 3 months ago and it didn’t disappoint. playa maderas is a small, quiet beach best known for surfing. the waves range in size but the beach is…
beaches in the netherlands? whodathunkit?
while in riga, we took refuge from the many flash latvian rainstorms to plan out the final weeks of our european travels. we managed to squeeze in a few hours at a nearby blue flag beach (jurmala) while in riga…
weekly recap #27 – rotterdam
q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. rotterdam (kralingen-crooswuk, airbnb, 7 nights) q. favourite meal a. all our meals were pretty low key this week. we ate half of our meals at home and had a…
misfiring on all cylinders in riga
we’re entering our 7th month of being on the road and at the risk of jinxing our future travels, i have to say that we’ve been rolling pretty good over the last few months. we’ve had our share of hardships…
our daytrip to rovinj fueled by truffles
i was down and out for a few days in porec thanks to an allergic reaction to something i ate so i had the itch to get out and see what else this peninsula had to offer. rovinj is another…
from dubrovnik to split, the best drive in croatia
we picked up a rental car to service us for the next 10 days while traveling around croatia. getting from dubrovnik to split is a relatively straightforward trip as both towns/cities are tourist destinations but by driving, we got to…
trading dubrovnik’s crowds for beaches: a daytrip to cavtat
by the third day of our dubrovnik stay, the antisocial me had kicked in and i had had my fill of crowds. we spent a full day navigating our way through the hordes of old town and all i wanted…
the beaches of kotor: budva, plavi horizonti & sveti stefan
it doesnt take a lot of landlocked days in this heat to motivate us to find some water. although we were staying right on the edge of the bay of kotor we hadn’t realized that the water around town isn’t…
the idiosyncrasies of albania, which we’ve learned to love
-unfinished buildings – we noticed this in every town we passed and even in the countryside. buildings will be built up and a large number are left dormant at various stages of construction (with no sign of construction equipment onsite). …
