It was a bit of a slog from Cornwall in southwestern England around the Bristol Channel and across southern Wales from east to west. The drive had us all longing […]
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Seville
We chased the sun south to Seville from Madrid, leaving behind some rain that was due to hit the capital. On weekdays there’s a high-speed train almost every hour from […]
Madrid
It was a beautiful train ride from Bilbao to Madrid’s Chamartin station, a winding route through the rugged mountains of Montes Obarenes National Park with some incredible views out the […]
Biarritz
We had quite the utopian existence for our days in Biarritz on the Basque Coast: sleep in, breakfast, morning swim, lunch, afternoon surf, afternoon Basque nibbles, dinner, sleep, repeat. Biarritz […]
Canton Valais and the Swiss Alps
After 34.6 kilometers/21.5 miles of darkness and ear popping through the Lötschberg Base Tunnel – which, when it was originally completed, was the longest railway tunnel in the world – […]
Innsbruck and the Austrian Alps
As we were walking out of the train station in central Innsbruck the first thing I saw was a couple a little younger than Lisa and I exiting the station […]
Ljubljana
With only a few hundred thousand residents and 50,000 full-time university students, Slovenia’s capital of Ljubljana (pronounced LEW-blee-AH-na [took us a little getting used to as well…]) felt like more […]
Independence Day in Anchorage
We made a conscious choice to spend the Independence Day long weekend in Anchorage, figuring that all the locals would head out of the city to enjoy the outdoors for […]
Bellingham
The drive from Leavenworth to Bellingham was very picturesque, the towering peaks of the Cascades rearing up alongside the highway as we crossed over to the coastal side of the […]
Leavenworth and Freund Canyon
I have to give kudos to Lance Munselle for putting us onto the quaint mountain town of Leavenworth tucked away in the towering mountains of the eastern Cascades. Our ultimate […]