costa rica in pictures: the final leg of our year
we had a meloncholy stop in our last city of our europe leg but costa rica ended on different terms. more sunsets that we could count, rainforests of monteverde, hummingbirds, coatis, graduating to a surfing rookie, chicken eating crocodiles, fluking…
montenegro in pictures: cevapcici, old town and beachin it up
sandwiched between albania and croatia, this was our second country on a roadtrip with j-lo. we stayed in kotor and spent the (very) hot days walking the walled city, saying hello to the many local cats, hiking the ladder of…
albania in pictures: our biggest surprise of europe
a surprising week of r&r and exploring after an all nighter at the athens airport and a bumpy hydrofoil ride from corfu (greece) to sarande. albania started off as the beginning of our trip up the ionian/adriatic sea (for me…
portugal in pictures: egg tart bellies and funky neighbourhoods
from the algarve in the south to porto in the north and ending in lisbon, we barely got a taste of what the country had to offer. turquoise waters and red cliff beaches, tiled walkways and churches and a healthy…
beaches in the netherlands? whodathunkit?
while in riga, we took refuge from the many flash latvian rainstorms to plan out the final weeks of our european travels. we managed to squeeze in a few hours at a nearby blue flag beach (jurmala) while in riga…
the philippines in pictures: liempo and beaches with friends
four islands, three flights, two ferry rides, scooters, white sand beaches, snorkeling, liempo, sketchy tricycle rides, cute kitties, wet markets, fourteen day old balut, chocolate hills, randomly caged crocodiles, atv rides, fresh coconuts, lunch on a private beach, beautiful sunsets,…
the beaches of kotor: budva, plavi horizonti & sveti stefan
it doesnt take a lot of landlocked days in this heat to motivate us to find some water. although we were staying right on the edge of the bay of kotor we hadn’t realized that the water around town isn’t…
the idiosyncrasies of albania, which we’ve learned to love
-unfinished buildings – we noticed this in every town we passed and even in the countryside. buildings will be built up and a large number are left dormant at various stages of construction (with no sign of construction equipment onsite). …
the beaches of the albanian riviera
we spent five days in sarandë and had two days to spend roadtripping it out in search of beaches. spending our first day on our hotel’s private beach was a great day in it’s own right but we had no…
santorini’s beaches: slumming it in the sun
we heard that santorini didn’t have great beaches but we had to find out for ourselves and compare it to those of portugal and the philippines. all of the ones below except for cape coloumbo were accessible by buses which…
