Europe
From mid-December to mid-January, we occupied ourselves with a mad dash through nine European countries. Here’s a few snippet summaries of what we got up to! Overview of Places Visited: 🍕 Bulgaria (Plovdiv, Sofia) ⚰️ Romania (Bucharest, Brasov) 🇭🇺 Hungary (Budapest) 🐈 Austria (Vienna) 🥟 Poland (Krakow) 🏰 Slovakia (Bratislava) 🕰️ Czechia (Brno, Prague) 🍺 Germany (Berlin)
Europe
Türkiye, land of culinary marvels, ancient history, and spectacular landscapes, we will be back! Swept by sea winds, Istanbul is one of the most beautiful cities we have ever visited, its skyline crowned with countless minarets. The Blue Mosque, with its ornate glazed tiling, sat nearby the 1500-year old Hagia
Greece
Greece was bright, friendly, and very rich with history. Our itinerary was in sandwich form, with Athens as the bread and the Greek islands as the filling. Maybe Naxos was the lemony green olive paste, and Syros was the feta cheese? Either way, it was delicious. Athens We sampled plenty
Europe
Those two words, art and olives, pretty much sum up the Italy part of our trip, and boy was it fun! 📻In case you're wondering about the radio silence - we do have a whole bunch of blog posts already written! Lately, we've just been low
Europe
We’re hoping this blog post hits vaguely like fine French cuisine: small in portion size but rather tasty. Or at the very least, like a bite-sized serving of that glorious Quebecois delicacy, poutine. Paris Our time in Paris was short, but very sweet (read macrons, pain au chocolate, crepes)
Spain
Spain greeted us with a smile, or rather a reasonably-priced gluten-free savoury empanada that was akin to an out-of-body experience. We just couldn't believe that it, or the €2 gluten-free baguettes, were real. Not to only dwell on food... but we also found gluten-free calamari and Rachel wept
UK
Backpacking through the United Kingdom is an experience which we would describe as Old World broke. There is nothing like wandering through the charmingly dismal cobblestone streets, smelling the heavenly aromas of comfort food and not being able to afford any of it to bring the works of Charles Dickens