After Ireland and a one-night layover in Amsterdam, we headed over to Belgium to play tourist in Brussels and Bruges. First up– Brussels. Advance research told us that there was not much to see and do in Brussels, but we went anyway because we couldn’t secure “affordable accommodation” in Bruges right away. No problem, we…
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A Breakfast By Any Other Name
While in the UK and Ireland, we’ve stayed in numerous of bed and breakfasts (B&Bs) and guesthouses. As the second B implies, the room also comes with breakfast in the morning. More often than not, breakfast isn’t merely yogurt and cereal but a hot, cooked breakfast usually consisting of sausage, bacon, beans, an egg, tomato,…
Galway Tourist
Quick note: lots of pics in this post, so please forgive us if it loads slowly. As Charity mentioned, Ireland is the Coach Isle. As we do not have a rental car to go sightseeing, when we reached Galway, we decided to set up basecamp and use the city as a jumpoff point for tours–…
Night at the Thee-Ah-Taaah
Charity and I recently got around to reading Wicked. I’d heard about the book from friends, and of course, one could not escape the mega-commercial, gratuitous onslaught of the Broadway musical. First season Ugly Betty fans, you know what I’m talking about. Since arriving in London, we could not help but notice the ads everywhere…
We’re Ready for Our Close-Up
We’ve been in the UK for about three weeks and managed to get hooked on three TV shows: ? Strictly Come Dancing – the original _Dancing with the Stars_ ? Any random BBC documentary ? The Wright Stuff Now, we discovered The Wright Stuff pretty early on in our trip while getting ready for the…
Hey, Kids– Big Ben, Parliament…
For those of you not familiar with National Lampoon’s European Vacation, Charity and I have been laughing about the following clip since we arrived in London, especially on yesterday’s Hop-on, Hop-off tour. Little did we know… well, first the clip… We had so little sleep yesterday, we decided to take it easy and sleep in…
Excuse Me, Wells, Can I Have Your Autograph?
We took some downtime in Conwy the other day and were lucky enough to have an impressive collection of DVDs at our disposal at the B&B. I’d wanted to see Hot Fuzz for ages, so when I saw it on the shelf, I snagged it with a quickness. From the same guys who brought us…
Not Cantebury’s Bath
Quick note: hey, leave us a comment, if you’re so inclined. It’s easy enough to do– just click on that cartoony dialogue balloon to the right of the post title. We love hearing from you. After that late flight into London, we immediately hopped a train out of Paddington Station the next day, saving our…
A Day in Rothenburg
After Switzerland, we took the train up to Frankfurt just to pick up a rental car. This time, however, we had no intention of using it as a hotel room, thank goodness! Instead, we decided to ditch the train system again to get to that ever-elusive European “back door” Rick Steves keeps espousing. Before heading…
Autobahn, Baby
Back in the States, whenever I saw a fast, flashy car, I’d think, “What a waste around here. They need to go to Montana or the Autobahn.” Now, I’ve never driven the former, but I couldn’t have guessed how accurate I was about the latter. Rick Steves described German drivers as frustrated race car drivers.…