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A Transylvanian Halloween

puu — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:25:30 +0000

A friend and I took a trip to Romania to celebrate a “vampiric” Halloween. My first guided tour, it took a while to get used to being stuck on a bus. But the tour guide and bus driver were amazing, …

Karlovy Vary: Part 3

puu — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:53:48 +0000

Day 5 After another five hours in the car, we arrived in Karlovy Vary, or Karlsbad, a Czech (and a few times in history, German) spa resort town. Lovely! Beautiful buildings (all spa hotels), and a cute downtown shopping area …

Alpine Mediterranean Loop: Part 2

puu — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:30:52 +0000

Day 3 We checked out of the hotel in the morning and paid one more visit to the Marseille harbor to see the St. Jean fort (under construction, so just a walk by), then to the Cathedral. Along the way …

Alpine Mediterranean Loop: Part 1

puu — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:10:49 +0000

Herr had an acquaintance request a whirlwind tour of Europe. We learned several lessons from this (the biggest being we aren’t travel agents, so bring your own plans if you come to visit), but we went through a lot of …

Valencia Wishes

puu — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 05:09:26 +0000

I decided for my birthday I needed a long weekend on a beach and to see an aquarium, and two places I’ve been wanting to visit came to mind right away: Monaco and Valencia. We were leaning towards Monaco but …