Biking

  • belgium in pictures: waffles, beer and tintin

    we split our 1 week in belgium across brussels and bruges. did a bike ride daytrip across the imaginary border to the netherlands in the town of sluis and another daytrip to the herge museum since i’ve been a tintin…

  • latvia in pictures: when in doubt, just look up

    knowing very little of latvia, we made a budget-friendly decision to book our train to riga while in warsaw the previous week and were treated to a week of art nouveau architecture, cheap but dressed up meals, a history lesson…

  • biking through the historic windmills of kinderdijk, netherlands

    our biking adventures continued in the netherlands and haha has been making leaps and bounds over this year.  there are many daytrip options from rotterdam and while we originally planned to spend the majority of our excursions to the beaches…

  • a perfect daytrip to cascais and a farewell to portugal

    by this point in our trip (15 days in portugal; albufeira, porto as well as lisbon), we were already smitten by all of portugal’s offerings.  the people, the food, the architecture, the graffiti, the desserts and the beaches.  we heard…

  • weekly recap #17 – lisbon

    q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. lisbon (airbnb, baixa, 7 nights) q. favourite meal a. maybe the toughest week to recap for food.  our lisbon stay involved: i) home cooked chinese meals for almost all…

  • biking the han river

    after we spent the day biking around kamakura, haha was practically begging me to get out on the bikes again 😀  ok, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration but she did want to take them out to spend a day alongside…