If France is for lovers but you haven’t got one I recommend a little city in France which is for lovers, but of a different sort. Pretty dang good coffee in Strasbourg, France makes it the perfect place for, you guessed it, coffee lovers! A couple short weeks ago we were in Strasbourg, France for an…
A Cultural Experience | Our Third Night of Marriage | Part III
Read Part I and Part II and then this part will make more sense. This is the final installment and a little long, but if you’re still following the story at this point I think you’ll find it worthwhile to read ’til the end. The other guy All was quiet for awhile, maybe even a couple of us dozed…
Overnight Train to Zurich | Our Third Night of Marriage | Part II
First, go read the beginning of this story here! Trading places on an overnight train In the midst of my Thank you Jesus’s, two young guys walked up who apparently knew the girl sitting in the 6-seated cabin. They spoke with my husband (in Hungarian of course) and I soon heard him say “Igen, igen, semmi probléma” (yeah, yeah,…
Keleti Train Station | Our Third Night Of Marriage | Part I
I wish I was a better storyteller than I am, because some stories just shouldn’t go untold. Once upon a time two years ago in May (2016) we got married in Budapest, Hungary. It was a wedding beyond our dreams, and the act of getting married surrounded by loved ones from every home we’ve ever…
Riffelalp Resort 2222 m, Zermatt, Switzerland
Today is the day I finally get to share with you about how 2017 ended for us. If I told you we spent a couple days of our holidays bathing in Europe’s highest outdoor pool, surrounded by snow, would you believe me? And what if the pool had a direct view of the Matterhorn, one of…
Airberlin Canceled Our Tickets | The Rest of The Story
After what you might call the worst and longest bout of homesickness I’ve ever endured, On August 14th shortly before midnight, we finally purchased our much-contemplated plane tickets. On August 15th our airline Airberlin filed for bankruptcy. We weren’t worried at first. Not because we had travel insurance or anything smart like that, but because…
Making Cheese in the Swiss Alps
First things first, if you’re going to make Alp cheese, you need an alp and some cows! We visited such an alp and such cows a few weeks ago with friends. They took us to their daughter’s in-laws’ farm on the Bäderalp in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. I couldn’t have known prior to that…
Unburying Amish Roots in Erlenbach, Switzerland
Just when I thought we would have to be done traveling for a bit, some friends invited us to their cabin in the Bernese alps for the weekend. Between Ber studying for exams and us both trying to save up for a trip to the United States hopefully sooner than later, we’ve been resigned to…
Piran, Slovenia | The Slovenian Seaside
If I didn’t realize it while we were there, I’ve definitely realized it going through the pictures again. Piran, Slovenia is one of my favorite travel surprises to date. A few days before we left for Slovenia, I mentioned in my facebook travel group that we were headed to the little country. Two people recommended Piran at…