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this has been the quickest seven months of our lives. i almost can’t believe that it’s over and that we’ve done 27 of these weekly recaps (some of which were longer than a week due to me being lazy). we’re planning to head to south & central america in a few weeks to continue our […]
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jojo: what do i like? -asian food. the familiarity of restaurants -my computer. no longer must i work off of one 13″ screen; this isn’t the 80s anymore. -not having to pay for bathrooms and water. i probably spent the equivalent of an overseas flight on water alone. -no more math in my head for […]
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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 sucked: i’m not sure what sucked more, the dripping water pressure with a hot water […]
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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 for at least a few weeks. we’re still planning to head south to south & […]
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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 larger cities we’ve stayed in which could warrant its own blog post -people watching. i […]
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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 London and Paris. We didn’t time our visit to Lille very well, we arrived right […]
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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 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. we had planned to take some photos on our first two nights in town but […]
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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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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 beautiful space, located inside one of the buildings that victor horta, one of the […]
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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 france i was heartbroken when i found out that this museum was in belgium and […]
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so one thing we found out very quickly into our travels was that although airbnb is a nice alternative to hotels to get that ‘home away from home’ experience, it’s not quite perfect. i swear that we weren’t trying to nitpick about each of our places but there would always be, without fail, something that […]
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what brought us to belgium? well for starters, the food… i thought i knew so much about junk food but my years of eating like crap taught me nothing. waffles – maybe the most famously linked food to the belgians is the waffle. yeah, those ones, sprinkled with toppings with giant dollops of ice/whipped cream. […]
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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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jojo: what do i like? -modern architecture. clean lines, lots of mirrors and lots of angles. i’m loving the look of rotterdam. we have seen a lifetime of old, european architecture and i was starting to get a little depressed -we’re in the land of patios and biking. in one sense, it feels a lot […]
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i was able to almost get through asia and europe without buying anything as a keepsake until we hit belgium and i just couldn’t resist leaving without a trinket to commemerate our trip to the tintin museum tourist mode. engaged.
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well six months has passed and we’re still trudging along here in europe (currently in the city of riga in latvia). at the start of the year, i was partially excited and equally as nervous about how things would turn out given that neither of us had been on a trip this long with this […]
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