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q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. laguna de apoyo (san simian, 2 nights), leon (hotel, 3 nights), little corn island (las palmeras, 1 night) q. favourite meal a. cuban food at el bodegon. a ex-pat owned restaurant with an alley-shaped courtyard. their menu is very simple; pick one of six […]
Read Morewe had four nights booked in panajachel, lake atitlan and while there are plenty of things to do around the lake, taking a daytrip to chichicastenango is one of the most popular ones. chichicastenango is a town about an hour and a half away by shuttle and hosts the country’s largest markets twice a week […]
Read Moreas perhaps the most frequently visited town by tourists, antigua has no shortage of hotels or places to indulge in meals and accomodations. casa santo domingo is exactly one of those places. as one of the oldest hotels of antigua, it is much more than simply a hotel. the sprawling grounds are immaculate and are […]
Read Moreon our third day in antigua we planned for a daytrip out of the city. the landscape of guatemala is riddled with volcanos and mountainous passes; antigua itself is nestled between a trio of volcanos with two additional volcanoes nearby that are very popular for hiking. volcano fuego is the most active of the three. […]
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If the crowds of Amsterdam gets you down, I would suggest a day trip out to quaint Haarlem which is only a 15-minute train ride away. The city is pretty small, perfect to be explored by foot. Lots of great shops and restaurants within the town center. There’s even a windmill that you can take […]
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rotterdam has been one surprise after another. from the food to the beaches to the people, we enjoyed them all equally. the most noticeable trait about the city is that which stares you in the face… its bold and modern architecture. we arrived in rotterdam at the central station and the complexion of the city […]
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our biking adventures continued in the netherlands and haha has been making leaps and bounds over this year. there are many daytrip options from rotterdam and while we originally planned to spend the majority of our excursions to the beaches we convinced ourselves to decide between either visiting a historic windmill area or the cheese […]
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we spent our first day in the netherlands daytripping it north of rotterdam to the hague which sits alongside the north sea on the western coast. its population is nearly half a million and is a very popular summer destination for the dutch. our motivation for visiting scheveningen beach was for the firework display that […]
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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 ahead and rented our bikes for the day from ‘de ketting’ bike shop. its about […]
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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 few favs from market q. most memorable moment / best highlight a. our final beach […]
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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 its waterways being used to transport goods as well as its flourishing cloth industry. all […]
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while we passed many hours in brussels stuffing our faces with things that made us smile we also squeezed in some sightseeing. i had my eyes set on musee herge otherwise known as the tintin museum 🙂 the creator of tintin, georges remi (his initials backwards are RG which transformed into him signing his works […]
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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 but they’ve been relatively few and far between. the weather was pretty much great as […]
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warsaw has been an interesting destination to say the least. we were caught off guard by a lot of things and this leg has involved a fair bit of culture shock. we arrived after spending nearly a week in berlin; a city that has a fair bit of grime, history and oozing character. if i […]
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how quickly time flies in a city like berlin. 3.5 million people and countless metro lines connect a city that was once divided by politics. five days was never going to be enough time for us to cover everything we wanted to see which always gets me excited when planning out what sights to visit. […]
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we had scheduled five days in prague since we had known we’d have j-lo as our trusty guide (who’s basically a local by now) so the general plan was that we’d do our laps of the must-see attractions in prague but he also had his local watering holes to take us too. our first day […]
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i was googling things to see in berlin and sifting through the seemingly endless list of attractions when i came across a listing that stood out to me… teufelsberg. the summary was interesting and the more i read about this place, the more i was hell bent on going. from everything i could find out, […]
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berlin has been given the title ‘creative city of design’ by none other than unesco itself and after spending nearly a week there, i can understand why. the ethnic diversity is so strong that the city has turned into a melting pot of cultures which can be seen all over town. the architecture isn’t as […]
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