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casa santo domingo: museums, gardens and an amazing sculpture park
as perhaps the most frequently visited town by tourists, antigua has no shortage of hotels or places to indulge in meals and accomodations. casa santo domingo is exactly one of those places. as one of the oldest hotels of antigua,…
weekly recap #30 – santa cruz & flores
q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how longa. a. lake atitlan (panajachel, 1 night & santa cruz, 2 nights), bus (1 night), flores (3 nights) q. favourite meal a. we’ve had some great meals this week thanks to…
first 24 hours in antigua (guatemala)
jojo: what do i like? -food! tasty and cheap are a perfect combo in my book. while my stomach isn’t as bulletproof as i’d like it to be, this trip is going to be a training mission whether it likes…
weekly recap #28 – amsterdam
this has been the quickest seven months of our lives. i almost can’t believe that it’s over and that we’ve done 27 of these weekly recaps (some of which were longer than a week due to me being lazy). we’re…
our homes away from home: the europe edition
and as a follow-up to the asia accomodation recap, here is our recap from our european airbnb and hotels: barcelona: cost/night/person (in cad): $45 the thing that rocked: nothing. we couldn’t wait to get out of there. the thing that…
first 24 hours in amsterdam (netherlands)
jojo: what do i like? -impeccable transit network. the reach of the trams and metro lines are amazing and you can get to nearly any corner of the city with ease. this hasn’t been the case for many of the…
our homes away from home: the asia edition
so one thing we found out very quickly into our travels was that although airbnb is a nice alternative to hotels to get that ‘home away from home’ experience, it’s not quite perfect. i swear that we weren’t trying to…
weekly recap #26 – brussels, burges & lille
I q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. brussels (sablon, airbnb, 2 nights), bruges (markt, hotel, 3 nights), lille (vieux-lille, airbnb, 3 nights) q. favourite meal a. ‘one restaurant’ in bruges. the owner recommended the flemish…
weekly summary #23 – berlin & warsaw
q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. berlin (templehof-schoneberg, hotel, 5 nights) warsaw (airbnb, centrum, 3 nights) q. favourite meal a. perogies, borscht and the polish version of a schnitzel at our first (but definitely not…
our short but sweet stopover in tirana
our european itinerary has been all over the map and has seen numerous changes as the weeks have gone on. about the only thing we knew for certain was that we wanted to spend two weeks in croatia however getting…
