Seeing the World
Take your time and enjoy places without being an automatic sightseeing machine.
Struggling to Get Back Into Traveling
We have been planning our Beyond Vacation trip since last year. The one day we spent in Lisbon and the few days in Barcelona just felt so good and freeing after a bit of a hard summer. An even harder winter due to the cold and dark has led us (I fear) into hyping this [...]
When to daytrip: a Slow Travel Perspective
The ideas of slow travel and quality travel are coming up more and more. The core idea being to stay in a place longer and sink deeper into it as opposed to go skipping by so fast as to only see the major sights before being whisked away on a bus to the next sight. [...]
Not So Into Museums
This month’s topic in the Blogger Stammtisch is museums. But you see, I am not much of a museum person. When you read about what is going on in a city, often you end up with a list of museums. I usually skip this section in the guidebook. If this is the only thing on [...]
I love Belgian beer
German is stereotypically the land of beer. The Reinheitsgebot, the beer purity laws from the medieval ages, and Oktoberfest are both German and just spread this idea that beer is king in German. And it is, but I like Belgian beer better. The Reinheitsgebot makes sure beer in Germany is up to a specific standard, [...]
Bagels On My Mind
This week’s Postcard is a Simit deliverer near the Spice Market in Istanbul. He carries this plate of artfully stacked breads called Simit through the crowd. As my wife often reminds me, I am a goof. I like bad puns and equally bad self-portraits. So really all I can think of looking at this picture [...]
Lisbon Tram at Night
We are currently (like right as I am posting) in Portugal. We only had a few hours in Lisbon, before heading up to Porto for the conference we came here for. So we only got to see Lisbon for a night and a morning. It grabbed us right away as a really cool place. We [...]
Belgium and Chocolate
Belgium is chocolate. They are extremely related almost intertwined. Every street in the center of Brussels has a chocolate shop. There are historical reasons for it too. During our first day in Brussels, chocolate was a big theme. We started at the Galleries in Brussels and wandered through the Neuhaus store. Our guide then started [...]
Cornflakes and Chocolate
One of the best parts of living in Germany is their creativity with chocolate. Although I am sure it is all controlled and researched, but I like it. My favorite combination is cornflakes and chocolate. Ritter Sport has a great version of it. The blocks are thick enough that entire cornflakes in all their crispy [...]
Coastal Hole, Koufonisia, Greece
