The Travels of BBQboy and Spanky
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‘Ahoy!!’ in the Czech Republic The formal greeting in the Czech Republic is ‘Dobrý deň’ (‘Good day’). The informal greeting is ‘Ahoy!’ The first time I heard this I had to scratch my head. ‘Ahoy’ …
A walking tour in Prague. If you google “walking tours in Prague” you’ll get a lot of options, including a lot of “free” walking tours. These are very popular for obvious reasons. In our case we …
Our Apartment in Prague and other stuff… Note: This is an old post, marking the start of our full-time travels in 2014. Too many memories in this one to delete from the blog… July …
Many people have never heard of Slovenia (for many North Americans the only Slovenian they may be familiar with is hockey player Anze Kopitar). This country may be small, but it is the only …
Austria Travel Guide: Where to Go and What to See Most people associate Austria with skiing, Mozart, schnitzel, strudel, and images of Julie Andrews twirling around to a backdrop of mountains and …
Views from a Plane Window I’ve always been a bit of a plane geek and one of my favorite things is seeing the world go by from a plane window. So I decided to do a post dedicated to views from …
Why you should visit Oaxaca I had a hard time writing this post on Oaxaca, maybe because I have contradictory feelings about the city that I still haven’t resolved in my mind. On one hand I love the …
Why you HAVE to visit Monte Alban Monte Alban is one of the top 5 archeological sites in Mexico (the other 4 are Teotihuacan, Palenque, Chichen Itza, and Uxmal). But Monte Alban is special because of …
Straddling two continents Turkey is, as is oft repeated, a place full of contradictions. You will not find anywhere else in the world that blends these two cultures together so effortlessly. You …
