Category: travel
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The endless quest
As we continue our prep (well, at this point more like pre-prep) for our African trip, I have once again let myself get sucked down the rabbit hole that is my endless quest for the perfect laptop backpack. This is related to my other endless quest for the perfect suitcase (and I’m feeling pretty good…
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Starting to plan for a very big trip!
In my opinion, the second best thing to actually going on a trip is to plan for a trip. And we are starting to plan for a really big trip – an African safari. Okay, I could say a tour of Africa but saying you’re going on an African safari is SO MUCH MORE exciting,…
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Switzerland, part two
We left Zermatt and journeyed to Mürren, a trip that entailed 5 train transfers and one cable car ride. Pretty neat! The cable car fooled me. When I looked at it, I asked “Where are the tracks?†as they appeared to just disappear into the mountain. And indeed they did as we floated up and…
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Switzerland, part one
After we bade a fond farewell to Slovenia at the charming Ljubljana airport, we flew to Zurich by way of Paris. And in Paris we bid adieu to my sister and brother-in-law who were heading home to Pittsburgh via Reykjavik (you’d never guess, I bet, they flew Wow Airlines). I always hate to say goodbye…
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That’s a wrap (of the Rick Steves Eastern Europe tour, anyway)!
We ended our two-week Eastern Europe tour in Slovenia, a country about which I knew next to nothing. It is absolutely charming! It’s quite small (the size of New Hampshire) and sits snuggled between Italy, Austria and Croatia. We got a tour of the capitol of Ljubljana from a local guide who told us that…
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Another day, another country
We left Hungary and drove to Croatia, stopping at the border for passport inspection. It turns out Croatia, while sort of part of the EU, is not a full member and is not part of the Schengen Zone so its borders with neighboring EU countries like Hungary (which is higher up the EU food chain) are…
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