This post is part of a series called Winter Walkabout 2024 “Time and tide waits for no man,” a phrase that comes to us from Geoffrey Chaucer – as one…
Puttin’ On the Rijks
This post is part of a series called Winter Walkabout 2024 Our foray into bite-sized travel has been a success in a lot of ways. We’ve been to two cities…
Waking Up in Amsterdam
This post is part of a series called Winter Walkabout 2024 As has been discussed (ad nauseum) (shut up) we left Vienna in the late evening and drifted off into…
Noodling on the NightJet
This post is part of a series called Winter Walkabout 2024 As we said last week, rather than spend a day of our mere one-week trip in transit between Vienna…
Sic Transit Gloria Vienna
This post is part of a series called Winter Walkabout 2024 The sun rose up on our last day in Vienna. If you’re thinking that seems quick, well yeah –…
Good Old-Fashioned Tourists, Vienna Edition
This post is part of a series called Winter Walkabout 2024 Day 1 in Vienna was all about getting the lay of the land, in more ways than one. There’s…
Rock Me Amadeus
This post is part of a series called Winter Walkabout 2024 So we’re on the hop on hop off bus (we won’t proselytize again, you’ve heard our thoughts) and cruising…
Vivacious Vienna
This post is part of a series called Winter Walkabout 2024 We’ve lived in Europe for a little more than two years now. In that time, as regular readers have…
Interstitial: Packing for 18 Days
While our Southern France posts were going live, someone asked me how we managed to go for such a long trip with only a suitcase and backpack. With the caveat…
Mandatory Equanimity: or, “(you better) keep calm and carry on”
A number of years ago we were driving in Ireland, spending a lot of time looking at lesser-known stone circles and other ancient monoliths. This was 2012, and having full-blown,…
