It’s that wonderful time of year when most of us start seeing reindeer on our screens, in people’s’ lawns, and generally taking over. We saw some at the zoo when we went for their lights display and my comment was “Oh good, I haven’t seen one of those in months!” …
The Terracotta Army is Epic. So epic I have to believe that some lost Grecian wandered to china, saw the Terracotta army and was inspired to invent the word EPIC. There are around 9000 figures. It’s not just soldiers, though there are more than 8000 of them, there are also …
We landed in Krabi on the Andaman Coast of Southern Thailand this morning and hopped on a bus to Ao Nang where we will be living for the next 3 weeks helping teach English to small children in an international preschool. The staff we’ve met so far seem really nice …
Obviously I miss family and friends, no one needs to hear about that kind of thing but what might be interesting is hearing what differences have made me wish for the American way of doing things. Then there are the things we’ve run into that we are going to miss …
Last night we arrived in Gruyeres and had fondue, which was a great start to our visit of the region that produces Sarah’s favorite (readily available) cheese of all time. Today we set out to experience more of the things the region is famous for and we certainly succeeded! We …
Today has been pretty unremarkable by our current standards, we traveled from Kandersteg to Gruyeres (both in Switzerland), walked and biked around the village we’re staying in, had some fondue and saw a nice sunset over some interesting looking mountains. What we really need to talk about is the alps. …
Yesterday our AirBnB host pointed to the picture on the front of her book of a man in a harness clinging to the side of a cliff and said “tomorrow we do this, you want to come?”. Of course we said yes, so this morning we were picked up by …
Pretty early on Friday we got on a bus heading from London to Winchester to stay with a friend. We got off the bus in a really nice looking downtown area with some beautiful gardens next door. Our friend was there to pick us up and we headed off to …
The next morning we had decided we were going to bike out to Greenwich along the Thames and then take a boat back. So, we paid 2 pounds each to get bikes out of the cycle hire station near our flat. From there we headed down the path along the …
The next morning we packed up, headed downstairs, checked out, put our luggage in the trunk room and had a nice breakfast of toast and cereal before heading out for the day. We had determined not to repeat our previous mistake of not leaving time for Tower of London and …