Destination weddings are wonderful and a bit tough at the same time. You travel far to see two people you care about getting married, but you are also only one of many and can’t expect too much one-on-one time with…
Tibb’s Eve Amsterdam & Christmas Eve in Vienna
We got to spend Tibbs Eve visiting with family in Amsterdam, Christmas Eve in Vienna and Christmas Day in Addis Ababa. Even Santa would be impressed by our ability to get around the world so quickly.
A Gow Girl in Glasgow
Marieke & Jon December 2019: We arrived in Glasgow the day prior to the start of Martha and Gavin’s wedding festivities. Our hostel was coincidentally in the same area of the city where my parents lived in the early 1970s.…
The start of our European / African Adventure
Jon & Marieke : Trip start date December 15 2019 It took until 2am to finish negotiating what we absolutely needed for our trip and what could be left behind. We had to pack for December cold in Toronto, February…
Final Days in Spain: Madrid
After a 5.5 hour bus ride from Oviedo, I arrived in Madrid. I took a quick Metro ride to my hostel for the next 4 nights, which was another really nice hostel. One of those ones with curtains on the…
Ode to Oviedo
From Valencia, I had a train booked at 10:40am, arriving at 1:05pm at Puerta Atocha station in Madrid, then a 2:00pm bus booked to Oviedo, a small city in Northern Spain, from Estacion D’sur station. The stations are a 30…
Valencia
After a brief recovery in Barcelona, I arrived in Valencia tired, of course. I think the heat was sapping my energy, as I was hardly drinking and going to bed very early by local standards (late enough though). I had…
Barcelona
Some late nights in Seville, a couple of very hot days in Lyon, and four nights in a big house with my friends from high school, added up to a desperate lack of sleep. I was starting to feel like…
Castling in rural France
Other than booking the house months ago, and taxis to get us to the wedding and back and from the train station, we had not done a lot of research on where we were staying for four nights. But our…
Cordoba, Lyon and Dijon
After staying out til 2:30am watching Flamenco in Sevilla, I grabbed a morning bus to Cordoba. I was hoping to escape some of the heat from Sevilla, but it hit 38 in Cordoba. Ouch. Luckily, my hostel was very cool…