It’d been almost five years since we’d been over to Navan to visit the Browns. The last time we were on the farm was on a quick trip to Yorke […]
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The Isle of Skye
It was a long drive from Glasgow Airport following our morning flight from Belfast. Four hours and 47 minutes of driving time, to be exact. Our longest slog since we […]
Llanychaer and Southern Wales
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 […]
San Sebastián
It was quite the trip down memory lane for the kids and me as we crossed the border into Spain from the train station in Hendaye in France: we’d walked […]
Munich
We weren’t expecting a lot from Munich: another city on our way west and a good way to break up our train journey into the mountains of Austria and Switzerland. […]
Prague
The words “new” and “old” have a bit of a different meaning in the centuries-old city of Prague. Our digs for our few days in Prague’s New Town – Nové […]
Moravian Wine Country
Whether we had the all clear to enter the Czech Republic was a bit of a gray area and something we scratched our heads over for a little while when […]
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 […]
Zagreb
We certainly felt like we were rolling through the Iron Curtain as we entered Zagreb from the south: identical towering grey concrete skyscrapers of apartment buildings from the Cold War […]
Dubrovnik
Unlike France and Italy – where the well-oiled train system made hopping about the country a breeze – it’s a little trickier to roam about the Balkans. The train system […]
Split
As we were walking to the train station in Bassano del Grappa headed for the ferry port in Ancona my phone buzzed asking me if I’d made a purchase of […]
The Glenn Highway and Tok Cutoff
Following another round of COVID tests in Anchorage on our way north from The Kenai Peninsula, we officially marked the beginning of our very long drive back to California to […]