we 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 […]
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hiking volcano pacaya, guatemala
on 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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Laidback Haarlem
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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biking through the historic windmills of kinderdijk, netherlands
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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exploring netherlands: the hague
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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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 ahead and rented our bikes for the day from ‘de ketting’ bike shop. its about […]
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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 france i was heartbroken when i found out that this museum was in belgium and […]
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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 but they’ve been relatively few and far between. the weather was pretty much great as […]
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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 coastal town about 30 mins south of porec and boasts an old town of its […]
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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? well this same situation reared it’s head a few times during our travels. we’ll be […]
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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 to do was get away, as far away as possible and sit somewhere quiet for […]
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visiting perast, a montenegrin town of two islets
our next stop after tirana was the small historical town of kotor in montenegro. montenegro borders albania to the north and by bus it took us roughly six hours to get there from tirana. this marked the end of our string of long bus rides and we were really happy to set our feet down […]
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the beaches of the albanian riviera
we spent five days in sarandë and had two days to spend roadtripping it out in search of beaches. spending our first day on our hotel’s private beach was a great day in it’s own right but we had no idea what we were going to find once we got out of the city’s limits. […]
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Day Trips from Sarande
The Blue Eye and Butrint were two sights recommended by various blogs as two places one must see while in Sarande. Although both sites are reachable by bus, we decided to rent a car to drive to both places so that we could see them both on the same day without being dictated by a […]
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Coolest Museum in Humlebaek
For some reason there is a museum of modern art in Denmark named Louisiana. According to Wikipedia, the name of the museum derives from the first owner of the property who named the villa after his three wives, all named Louise. How convenient for him. Names aside, this modern art museum is one of the […]
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a perfect daytrip to cascais and a farewell to portugal
by this point in our trip (15 days in portugal; albufeira, porto as well as lisbon), we were already smitten by all of portugal’s offerings. the people, the food, the architecture, the graffiti, the desserts and the beaches. we heard from nadius that the town and beaches were beautiful so off we went… cascais is […]
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daytrip to caparica beach from lisbon
we took a day off of stairclimbing the streets of lisbon and headed south to squeeze in a beach day. our original plan was to head to cascais but since we woke up late (something that’s been happening more regularly), we made plans to head to a closer beach on the south shores of the […]
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weekly recap #17 – lisbon
q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. lisbon (airbnb, baixa, 7 nights) q. favourite meal a. maybe the toughest week to recap for food. our lisbon stay involved: i) home cooked chinese meals for almost all dinners and most breakfast/lunches. white rice. saucy noodles. dumplings. KOBE! ii) a constant (but reasonable) […]
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