Brian wrote a defense of traveling in company last week, and I would like to add to that: In my travels, I’ve found that I’ve had an entirely different experience of the exact...
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Vilnius, Lithuania – Europe #33 [VIDEO]
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We had never seen so many churches in such a small place, you couldn’t walk 50 meters on the street without seeing a church. But despite having well over 65 churches to choose...
Vilnius, Lithuania – It’s All About Getting Married!
Vilnius is a lovely city and has many fun and interesting things to see and do, but what I will remember the most from this place is how everything seemed to be based...
Riga, Latvia – A Taste Of The Baltics!
Traveling around the Baltics I found a new part of Europe that fascinated me – I was amazed how I could be brought up in a neighboring country like Sweden, and yet never...
Nine to read and watch in conservation travel
WWF considers the Coral Triangle a WWF priority place for protection. © Jürgen Freund / WWF-Canon WILDLIFE “The tracks we find are old, which is a problem,” WWF’s Steve Felton writes from Namibia...
Scotland – A Day Trip To Stirling & Loch Lomond
Squeezing as much as possible into a travel itinerary is not ideal, so if you want to see as much as possible of Scotland in a short period of time, it’s best to...
Scotland – Moody Weather, Nature & Amazing People
We knew Scotland would be beautiful even before we stepped off the plane – just from what we saw 2000 ft in the air was enough to know that this spontaneous trip would...
Returning To Budapest – Our Second Impressions
Budapest was our last stop on our very first around the world trip together in 2008, which is why it felt quite special to be going back there a few years later. A...
MyBlockNYC.com brings New York City streets alive
In New York City , there’s a story to be found on every street. And now, thanks to MyBlockNYC.com , an ambitious interactive video mapping website, these stories are coming alive, not only...
Creepy & Abandoned Places To Visit In Europe
Now that autumn is on its way and the days are darker and shorter, I think it’s a good time to introduce some creepy abandoned places in Europe that are worth checking out...
How To Enjoy Thailand Without Visiting The Beach
When you think of Thailand, I bet one of the first things that come to your mind are long, white sandy beaches and those beautiful long-tail boats with colorful cloths tied to the...
It’s In The Little Things… Skopje, Macedonia
Since our planning was so rushed, we decided to skip the beautiful lake Ohrid and stay in the capital city – apparently, the capital city isn’t known to be a great hot spot...
Sarajevo, Bosnia – A City Stuck In The Past?
Like I mentioned in our Europe Train Challenge: Week 5 Update - Sarajevo was a city which from beginning to end, was a place we had many mixed experiences with. The old town was...
Bled, Slovenia: Straight Out Of A Fairy Tale
We knew little to nothing about Slovenia before starting the Europe Train Challenge . It was like a country which had been left in the shade between Austria and Croatia. But very soon...
Tips and Tricks for Family Travel
Traveling with kids – especially for the first time or on an extended trip – can be a nerve-wracking experience. Will the youngest have a total meltdown in unfamiliar surroundings
Cat Ba and the Island of Asshole Monkeys
Cat Ba Island. Largest of the nearly 2000 mystical Halong Bay islands theoretically formed by dragon droppings. According to brochures, blueprints and resorts plans spread about the island, it’s soon to be a...
Good Morning, Hanoi
Hanoi. From the Vietnamese “Ha” meaning River and “Noi” meaning Between. The city between the Red River
Hong Kong Nights (and Days, too)
Hong Kong. Or, as its once-again owners since 1997 succinctly call it, “Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China .” In the Venn Diagram mapping “China” and “The...
The Terra Cotta Warriors of Xi’an: Part I
One of my more successful attempts at using the "panorama" feature of my camera, in the massive "First Pit" Terra Cotta : Italian for “baked earth”; a clay-based, unglazed ceramic. A near consensus...
Guide to the Tokelau Islands
I’ve just uploaded an online Guide to the Tokelau Islands with the full Tokelau chapter from Moon Handbooks South Pacific. History, government, economy, and the people are covered in the Introduction, then there are...