weekly recap #24 – warsaw & riga
q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. warsaw (5 nights), riga (3 nights) q. favourite meal a. haha’s birthday meal at starry dom which was a fancier take on traditional polish cuisine. this might be stating…
santorini in pictures: black beaches, gyros and sunsets
a week in santorini was just the right amount of time. long enough to link up with jp for a few days in the middle of his travels for some beach days but not long enough to get burnt to…
pro volleyball in porec?!
porec was hosting a professional tournament on the weekend that we were in town. the finals were being played on the first full day we had in town and it was a pretty big production. in fact, i’d say it’s…
first 24 hours in riga (latvia)
jojo: what do i like? -very pretty city. the skyline has lots of churchtops and spires, a river runs through the middle of the city, lots of reconstructed buildings from the war era and also many new modern buildings with…
denmark in pictures: family weekend in copenhagen
three days in copenhagen went by all too fast after seeing my parents for the first time in five months. we squeezed in a few meals, a few neighbourhood walks, a singing flash mob and a daytrip to the louisiana…
chasing more waterfalls at plitvice lakes national park
our third stop in croatia was plitvice national parks, the biggest and oldest of the country. it is also a unesco heritage site, one of less than 10 in the country and is by far the most popular of the…
Spliting up in Split
Split is just as touristy as Dubrovnik but we found it to be more laidback. The food choices are more international, we even managed to find eggs benedict for breakfast on our last day. I thought the old town felt…
exploring croatia: klis fortress & krka national park
i’ve learned that driving to croatia can be both relaxing (like our coastal drive), harrowing like trying to find our split airbnb in a city built on one-way traffic and on this day, extra confusing. why do i say that? …
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…
a quick lunch stop in ston for oysters
in dubrovnik we had crossed paths with a small group of travelling frenchmen who were on the tail end of their stay in croatia. they put us onto a small town north of dubrovnik that, according to the french couple,…
