Author: Mrs Wander
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Back to the Americas, Caribbean Style
After the chill of fall was starting to set in around northern Europe we decided to escape to the Caribbean for a bit of warmth before heading back home to snowy Minnesota. We started with Curaçao, chosen only because of the convenience of flights both from Europe and to our next stop, which was Panama!…
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A Farewell Food Tour Through Northern Europe
Upon leaving Turkiye, the plan was to go to my favorite comedian in the UK, and make our way to Amsterdam to catch our flight across the pond. Along the way we were lucky enough to catch up with a few good friends we met earlier in our journey. We also managed to eat our…
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Enjoying the Culinary and Historical Delights of Turkiye
After several long days of hiking through Cappadocia and along Pamukkale, not to mention a less than restful overnight bus adventure, it was time to relax for several days along the Mediterranean. We took a shorter bus to Fethiye (Fet-e-yay), and one last one to Izmir. We opted not to tour around much, and just…
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Winding Our Way Through the Mountains and Waters of Turkiye
We visited 6 different cities in the three weeks we spent in Turkiye, which is a huge improvement with learning to “travel slow” when you consider we visited 13 cities in Japan in a similar time frame! I really loved learning all about the history of Turkiye, so I hope you don’t mind learning a…
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How to Recover from the Camino in Portugal
After two big physical challenges, we finally planned some time for rest and recovery. Some part of doing a shorter Camino was making sure we had enough time in our EU Visa to explore the wine country of Portugal! This actually isn’t the first time we used wine as incentive to complete a challenge, one…
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Testing My Limits on a Pilgrimage in Spain
At the end of last week, we took a rest day in the hope my feet would have some time to heal and our blisters could finally callus over, but we jumped right back in with a pretty big hill climb. I keep going back and forth on how much suffering one should endure on…
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How to Become a Pilgrim in Spain, Part 1
This week we started an adventure that has been on our list since we started planning this year of travel, the Camino de Santiago! The last few months we had been trying to add longer walks to prepare ourselves for the mileage. We also convinced our parents to take some extra items back with them…
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Making New Friends on a Cycle Adventure Through Wales
If you take 45 strangers from across the world with one thing in common: being a subscriber to the same YouTube channel; and you give them a cycling challenge through the balmy Welsh weather, what happens? Honestly I wasn’t sure what was going to happen beyond having some tired muscles, but I never would have…
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A Train Adventure through Slovenia and Switzerland
This week we continued our adventure with Mr. Wander’s parents through Slovenia and Switzerland until it was time to say farewell to them as well. This is the first time I’ve ever visited a country for less than 24 hours so that was a new experience, but we definitely got our fill of trains, delays,…
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Navigating Through the Natural Wonders of Croatia
After a flight from Athens to Dubrovnik, we rented what should have been a mini van for the 6 of us to drive up the coast. We got to see some of my favorite things, waterfalls, and a super cool musical instrument played by nature. After a week of hopping between towns we made our…