Hanoi marked the first stop on our April Islandhopping bike, boat, and kayaking tour of Vietnam. Our drive from the airport to our hotel in the Old Quarter introduced us to a city teeming with activity and overrun with a [...]
Last month, Steve and I toured Vietnam for 14 days with Islandhopping.com, a German company that features bike and small boat tours of a number of regions. We loved the tour of the Ionian Islands we took last spring with [...]
This week, Steve and I are off for a month of travel. After several weeks of Steve’s back-to-back business trips, it will be nice to spend some time with the guy who keeps me well supplied in travel points. [...]
Travel is an enlightening experience, a window to other cultures, and an opportunity to get out of one’s comfort zone. In no other aspect of travel are these sentiments truer than when you need to use the toilet in a [...]
You can find a ton of information on the top tourist spots in Istanbul so I’m not going to go into deep detail about the ones we hit, which were the Blue Mosque, Basilica Cistern, Hagia Sophia, the Grand Bazaar [...]
After tagging along on Steve’s business trip to Delft, we tagged on a trip to Istanbul before returning home. So, this is a tag-along-tag-on trip recap. First, our high level review: […]
When you’re tagging along on your significant other’s business travel, there are many times you have got to venture out on your own. You can only spend so much time in your hotel room raiding the mini bar and watching [...]
Steve gets to travel for work much more often than I do. However, through a quirky kind of luck, a couple of opportunities I’ve had for work travel have frankly blown all of his away. Most notably, on one of [...]