• visiting perast, a montenegrin town of two islets

    our next stop after tirana was the small historical town of kotor in montenegro.  montenegro borders albania to the north and by bus it took us roughly six hours to get there from tirana.  this marked the end of our…

  • 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…

  • Day Trips from Sarande

    The Blue Eye and Butrint were two sights recommended by various blogs as two places one must see while in Sarande. Although both sites are reachable by bus, we decided to rent a car to drive to both places so…

  • Coolest Museum in Humlebaek

    For some reason there is a museum of modern art in Denmark named Louisiana. According to Wikipedia, the name of the museum derives from the first owner of the property who named the villa after his three wives, all named…

  • 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…

  • daytrip to caparica beach from lisbon

    we took a day off of stairclimbing the streets of lisbon and headed south to squeeze in a beach day.  our original plan was to head to cascais but since we woke up late (something that’s been happening more regularly),…

  • 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…

  • Hanging with Mr. Turtle

    We had it good at the Bohol Bee Farm. It was pretty easy to while away the day being lazy and eating ice cream every day. We did manage to do some water activities. Being the non-swimming Asians that we…

  • Rolling Through the Hills

    We came to Bohol to visit the famous tarsiers and chocolate hills. Bohol is a pretty big island so we hired a van to take the six of us instead of going by scooters as previously planned. This turned out…