For many travelers, getting from their arrival point to their resting place can be the most stressful part of the trip. New place, sometimes a new language, and no matter…

On our first day in the environs of Évora we were hitting up ancient stone arrangements that were by and large out in the middle of nowhere. We still had…

You may recall from an earlier set of posts that I got a serious crush on the Alentejo region when we visited. It was still spring time and everything was…

We spent last week sharing thoughts on whether you should go on tours when you’re out and about. Looking back at it, we seem pretty down on the idea which,…

We’ve been between adventures for a little while now, which has given us pause to reflect; what do we love, what do we not love so much? What are we…

“Time and tide waits for no man,” a phrase that comes to us from Geoffrey Chaucer – as one of the earliest documenters of travel and travellers, we’ll draft him…

Our foray into bite-sized travel has been a success in a lot of ways. We’ve been to two cities we’ve never visited before, in two countries we’ve never visited before….

As has been discussed (ad nauseum) (shut up) we left Vienna in the late evening and drifted off into sleep. The good news is we slept “ok”, which might not…

As we said last week, rather than spend a day of our mere one-week trip in transit between Vienna and Amsterdam we opted to take a sleeper train, the “NightJet”….

The sun rose up on our last day in Vienna. If you’re thinking that seems quick, well yeah – the whole point of the trip was just to take nibbles…