I took more pictures in Granada than in any other city during our summer in Europe. Everyone had told me how wonderful Granada was – they gave me reasons like long summer nights drinking beer and eating free tapas. Who doesn’t love those things?! But what I fell in love with was the beauty of […]
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In case you missed it, my parents flew to Barcelona to travel with Martin and me! After spending the first half of their trip in a bustling city, we rented a car to explore Catalonia. Since my driver’s license was still expired (as I suddenly discovered in Scotland), Martin drove and I navigated. I’m a
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As a child, my family took pretty standard family vacations. We saw Mount Rushmore, the Black Hills, Medora, and of course, Disney World. I remember having a lot of fun spending time with my parents and brother. We never left the US and spent the vast majority of them in the midwest. We saw really
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We arrived at the train station in Sofia, Bulgaria fatigued and dehydrated from the 20 hour train ride from Budapest. My cousin greeted us with a big hug and Bobby the driver promptly took us to my cousin’s mother-in-law’s apartment where we were immediately fed our first of many amazing Bulgarian meals. My cousin and
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It was a whim. It was a good ticket price. It was a chance to see an old friend. It was a desire to see my cousin. All of these were factors into our travel frenzy at the beginning of July. Berlin, Germany After spending nearly 3 weeks in Sweden, Martin and I flew to
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I blame it on the house. It drew us there. The house was the reason we all were in Sweden. The house and all its memories. My husband’s great-grandfather was given the house on Vasmen Lake in Sweden after he lost his sight and a hand in a mining accident. Had the accident not happened,
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After our amazing bothy experience near Arisaig, we decided we needed to find another bothy. So, we looked on our trusty offline map (we use Maps.me) and found a bothy in Knoydart, the remotest part of the UK. The only way to get there is by boat or on foot. Within two hours, we had
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I’ve never liked planning my vacations very far in advance. So, it wasn’t out of the norm for Martin and I to be sitting in Edinburgh and suddenly decide to go on a road trip through the Scottish Highlands at the end of the week. We found a rental car, bought a tent and a
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We’ve been having the best luck with beautiful weather in Edinburgh! We are staying with Martin’s aunt and uncle – the last time we were here was 11 years ago! We are having fun being tourists again. The botanical gardens are gorgeous! We visited Roslyn chapel again and wandered around the woods to explore the
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The Hague, Netherlands The Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands and is about 45 minutes from where we are staying in Rotterdam. Many of the Dutch government buildings are in this city instead of in the capital city of Amsterdam. It also happens to have the International Court of Justice and the
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