Leipzig and the Worst Airbnb host in the World
Leipzig and the Worst Airbnb host in the World I’m on a 2 week trip of Germany with my mother as I write this. She had a premonition that this stay wouldn’t go well. She had booked Jochen’s apartment …
Cafés to go to for the best coffee experiences in Lviv, Ukraine
The best Cafés in Lviv Good (and cheap) coffee is not an issue in Lviv. It’s everywhere. I laugh when I hear that Vienna is the coffee capital of the world. Sure, Vienna has good coffee and beautiful …
The World of Travel Blogging in 2019
The World of Travel Blogging in 2019 I was slow off the mark. I came across my first travel blog back in late 2012. I think it might have been Gary Arnt’s Everything Everywhere. That brought me to …
The 10 Most Beautiful Metro Stations in Kyiv, Ukraine
The 10 Most Beautiful Metro Stations in Kyiv (Kiev) Among the most interesting of Kyiv’s Soviet-era architecture is its metro system. While each of Kyiv’s metro stations are different and interesting, …
Are Eastern Europeans unfriendly?
People are always saying that Eastern Europeans are unfriendly. We met a South African couple recently in Croatia who mentioned that Croatians are “nasty”, a Nicaraguan couple in Kyiv who …
Our Best and Worst “Slow Travel” Bases
Our Best and Worst “Slow Travel” Bases over 5 years of Full-time Travel Updated August 2024 While we’ve visited a lot of places during our full-time travels, our most lasting memories (good and bad) …
A Review of Ukrainian Airlines
A Review of Ukrainian Airlines “Don’t fly Ukrainian Airlines” our Czech journalist friend warned us, “it’s not a safe airline, everyone on board was drunk and it was like a party in the air. It’s not …
5 years of full-time Travel! And on changes…
5 years of full-time Travel Last month we celebrated 5 years of full-time travel. 5 years! It’s scary how time flies. I still remember the day when we went to the airport in July of 2014 for that …
The Croatian Islands: Which to Visit and How to Do it
The Croatian Islands: Which to Visit and How to Do it Croatia is a place we love, so much so that we stopped our full-time travels to live there for a year. Among its best attributes is its …