Five minutes from where we sit, a Roman palace is filled with cafe’s selling octopus and sea bass cooked to perfection, Croatian wine and beer is being poured for under $3 a glass, and sweet smelling pastries still perfume the air outside the bakeries. Yet we sit, watching Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog” – […]

Well, we survived what I have been the most nervous about for the whole trip: driving in Europe. We managed to navigate signs in German, Czech, Croatian, and Italian over the past few weeks. Czech wins for being the most confusing (the confusion mostly thanks to Google maps not having the best information on their […]

Our roadtrip is underway* and we are still holding steady. All’s well here as we have found a steady rhythm of wake up-coffeetime-explore-drive-explore(new city)-read-sleep repeat. And we have driven a lot in this first part of the road trip. In hindsight, front-loading some of the longer drives while getting accustomed to driving in Europe, on […]