Journal posts are about our personal travel experiences.
Chiang Mai was an incredible city. It probably helped that we paid for a few awesome full day adventures; a cooking class and visiting an elephant reserve. The city is also full of delicious food, gigantic markets, and plenty of cool things to see and do. Our first full day was our cooking class. We … Continue reading Chiang Mai
Pai was an incredible vacation on our vacation. We had been looking forward to these days since we booked them in Spain. We stayed in a quaint bungalow in the outskirts of town. It was full of hammocks, shade, cats, dogs, and the two wonderful hosts. I convinced Rachel to let us rent a scooter for our … Continue reading Pai
Our first experience with the country of France was with a wonderful family in the village of Saint Mihel. This is a tiny village of only 100 people about one hour (by fast train) from Paris. The family (Monika, Etienne, Chloe, and their go Lego) were incredibly welcoming and made us feel at home. We … Continue reading France Workaway
Restaurants: Burgermeister: Located under the train tracks in an old train bathroom. A small walk up burger place that serves the best burgers and fries in town. Order the chili cheese fries with you burger and you’re set. Be prepared to wait up to 30 minutes to order and even longer to find a seat. … Continue reading Ich bin ein Berliner
Ghent A great little city that had all the charm you would expect from Belgium but with the feel of a larger city. We imagined ourselves living in Ghent, riding our bikes to work, buying our bread from the local bakery. The city was an unexpected surprise and felt like a much better place to … Continue reading Ghent and Bruges: chocolate, lace, waffles, and fries
Land of beer and pretzels. Literally, that’s pretty much all we ate and drank… We started our tour of Bavaria in Nuremberg. It wasn’t nearly the city that Berlin was, but it had its charm. We were staying slightly out of the city center in a neighborhood called GoHo, an up an coming hip neighborhood … Continue reading Bavaria: The land of bier and brezen
Bergen holds a lot of charm and beauty in a small but expensive town. We spent one day in Bergen and one day on a fjord boat and train tour through Sognefjord. The hostel we stayed at made us feel old. Next time we won’t stay in a 32 bed dorm. There was always someone talking … Continue reading Bergen and Sognefjord
Our workaway is finally over. Three weeks have come and gone. The last two weeks were packed with lots of berry picking, fishing, more rocks, an unexpected trip to Sweden, and eating lots of good food. Looking back now we did a lot of cool things in Mosvik that we couldn’t have done anywhere else. … Continue reading Blueberries, Rocks, and Sweden
One of the reasons to venture to Norway was to visit some extended family I had met as a child. While traveling south from Bergen there was a huge rainstorm. Even as foreigners we noticed all the rivers running extremely high and all the lakes seemed full. It washed out some of the train tracks resulting in … Continue reading Climbing the Family Tree
