Visiting Berlin was quite an experience. A family friend, who had lived in East Berlin during the time of Communist rule and while the wall separated her from the other side of the country, joined me in Berlin with her family. It was the first time her teenage daughters had visited in their entire lives.… Read More Berlin & Its Wall
There is a very good chance you have heard of Tulum, Mexico, or you may have even traveled there yourself. But more likely you know someone who has visited, or gotten married somewhere around here, or went on their honeymoon 15 years ago when it was simply a beautiful little unknown beach town. Times have… Read More Traveling the Riviera Maya
June 7, 2014* My European adventure continued after the excitement of Barcelona — what a city! I activated my EurRail Pass and, after changing plans probably 20 times, decided that the most direct route to Bludenz, Austria was going to be back through France. So my incredible and very helpful mother booked me a hostel… Read More Countryside Cruisin’
After Madrid, I hopped on the first leg of my Rail-pass route, headed for Barcelona. My cousin already had plans to meet up with her friends (from the states) there and then they had a whole trip planned for Italy and Greece, but since I had already been to Italy, I was headed north to… Read More Bar-thay-low-nuh
Our Madrid stay got off to a hilariously rocky start. Brooke and I arrived on different airlines and of course, as we failed to realize, that meant our arrival terminals would be different, so we had no clue how much our parting words of “meet in baggage claim” lacked any sort of common sense. Of… Read More Vamos a España!
That’s probably the only cool thing I can say in French, and I definitely never used it while there. There was a lot of oui and non, but it was mostly “parlez-vous anglais?” (Yes I had to look that spelling up.) French is not my language, nor is German, or even “Spain” Spanish, thankfully English… Read More Oui Oui Mon Chéri!
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