our homes away from home: the europe edition
and as a follow-up to the asia accomodation recap, here is our recap from our european airbnb and hotels: barcelona: cost/night/person (in cad): $45 the thing that rocked: nothing. we couldn’t wait to get out of there. the thing that…
home sweet home on the horizon
home sweet home. it feels like it’s been an eternity since i’ve muttered those words. our plans for one long continuous trip around the world has fallen short as we need to stop off at home to be responsible adults…
first 24 hours in amsterdam (netherlands)
jojo: what do i like? -impeccable transit network. the reach of the trams and metro lines are amazing and you can get to nearly any corner of the city with ease. this hasn’t been the case for many of the…
Lille the Eurostar stop no one gets off at
We decided to go to Lille as our only French city to visit on this trip due to it’s proximity to Belgium and Netherlands. Only thing we knew about Lille was that it’s one of the stops on Eurostar between…
biking from belgium to the netherlands in a day
our last full day in bruges was actually not spent ‘in’ bruges. we heard that the town of damme is very close to the city and that the bike paths are a really easy bike ride away so we went…
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…
bruges after dark
bruges is such a fantasy-like town that as good looking as it is during the day, it’s even better looking at night. the canals and towers are lit up and if you’re lucky, you’ll still catch some swans swimming around. …
sightseeing in bruges
bruges, in a nutshell, is one big theme park. it is an absolutely beautiful city that has history dating back to the 9th century when it was founded by vikings. over the next 500 years the city grew thanks to…
brussels aka the land of comic strips
prior to visiting the tintin museum we also stopped by the comicstrip museum in brussels. it has a section devoted to tintin but also touches on many other belgian based characters, the smurfs taking another section for themselves. it was…
a daytrip to musee herge: a must for all tintin fans
i don’t know how many museums we had been to by this point in our trip but that didnt stop me from planning out a day to visit musee herge once we got into brussels. on our previous trip to…
