Category: Europe
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Returning to Our Home Away From Home in the UK
After saying farewell to our family in Marrakesh, we boarded a flight to Manchester. It was only about a 3 hour flight but we landed during the end of Storm Amy, so it was a bit rough coming in and the safe landing received a round of applause. We were to spend nearly a week…
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Savoring the Spices of Morocco
Have you ever tried to book flights between African countries? There aren’t many that go directly between them with the exception of a few hubs such as South Africa, Kenya, or Ethiopia. The other option is to go through the Middle East or Europe. As we were headed to Morocco next, the best option of…
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Cruising the North Sea with New Friends
Hello again! It has been awhile, hasn’t it? Let’s recap a bit. In my last post we were in the mountains of Huaraz and did a little visit to the coast in Lima before it was time to head home. We left Peru at the end of April, and after just a few days I…
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A Year of Around the World Travel: By the Numbers
What a year! We visited 4 continents, explored 28 countries, and traveled a total of 64,000 miles in 11 months. It is hard to really put the entire experience into words, so instead the data nerd in me will lay it out by the Numbers. Hopefully my fellow nerds will enjoy it and maybe it’ll…
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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
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…