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The Travels of BBQboy and Spanky

The Travels of BBQboy and Spanky

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    • EUROPE (A to M)
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      • AUSTRIA
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      • MONTREAL, QUEBEC
      • REGIONS OF QUEBEC, CANADA
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        • Pueblos Magicos of Mexico
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Newsletters

Newsletter June 2019 – Touring Georgia & Armenia, shitty Airbnb experiences, fake butts, remembering Jacques, and more…

by Frank (bbqboy)

June 11, 2019 Greetings from Armenia! Welcome to the land of the Kardashians where we’ve seen more duck lips and fake butts than any other place on our travels. If you think aspiring to be a …

Read moreNewsletter June 2019 – Touring Georgia & Armenia, shitty Airbnb experiences, fake butts, remembering Jacques, and more…

April 28 Newsletter – Lissette is “downsized”, re-examining slow travel, Freelance writing, Blogging, bad jokes and other reflections

by Frank (bbqboy)

Greetings from Antalya, Turkey! I realized that I haven’t done one of these newsletters in a really long time (the last real newsletter dates back to last October). We’ve had a lot of things happen to …

Read moreApril 28 Newsletter – Lissette is “downsized”, re-examining slow travel, Freelance writing, Blogging, bad jokes and other reflections

October 2 Newsletter – on Prague, being invited to the Canadian Embassy in Kiev, Upcoming plans, Day of the Dead, and other odds and ends

by Frank (bbqboy)

Greetings from Prague! We’re back in Prague, the city where we started off our full-time travels back in 2014. We’ll be here a month but not for fun stuff – Prague is where we get our yearly …

Read moreOctober 2 Newsletter – on Prague, being invited to the Canadian Embassy in Kiev, Upcoming plans, Day of the Dead, and other odds and ends

Tons of travelling, how to get a free hotel stay in Doha, dumping Facebook, our plans….and on getting a blog makeover.

by Frank (bbqboy)

Greetings from Brno, Czech Republic! We’ve done tons of travelling over the last few weeks flying from Chiang Mai to Doha to Zagreb. After a weekend in Zagreb we flew to Prague, from where we …

Read moreTons of travelling, how to get a free hotel stay in Doha, dumping Facebook, our plans….and on getting a blog makeover.

May 19, 2016 Newsletter – Croatia, Bad Haircuts, honeymoon spots, hospitality and my Airbnb beef

by Frank (bbqboy)

A lot of subjects covered on this newsletter including our welcome back to Croatia, actor Goran Višnjić, my really bad haircut, and crappy Croatian buses and why you really should visit Croatia …

Read moreMay 19, 2016 Newsletter – Croatia, Bad Haircuts, honeymoon spots, hospitality and my Airbnb beef

Feb 28, 2016 Newsletter – Complications, Catching up on a month of Crazy Travel…and on reaffirming old feelings

by Frank (bbqboy)

This is our first newsletter in a while. Lots here, including the summary of a crazy month of travel that took us from South Africa to Romania, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Germany…to Prague …

Read moreFeb 28, 2016 Newsletter – Complications, Catching up on a month of Crazy Travel…and on reaffirming old feelings
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