Our journey continues as we resume traveling clockwise around Ireland, this time heading north from Killarney to Galway. The highway...

I’m finally back in Ireland! It was here some 14 years ago that I went on my very first solo backpacking trip around Europe. There was...

We resume our journey through Scotland on the Isle of Skye, where we had an action packed day of adventure! After a hearty breakfast of...

Ah, Scotland… the land of thick accents, kilts, bagpipes, red hair, and strange food. A land full of mystery and mythology everywhere you...

Looking back, I feel that Wales is quite underrated, as we really enjoyed our time there. I hear of a lot of tour packages that cover...

To explore the rest of the UK, we’d looked at several options from trains to cars to buses and everything in between. In the end, we...

Hey, it's Catherine! Since this was my first time in London (and Noah’s third), I'm going to share with you about our first stop in the...

Due to construction on the tracks, we had to take a bus from Oslo to the Swedish town of Göteborg. That stunk a bit for us because we had...

Whenever someone mentions Norway, I always think of rugged landscapes, water, and, of course, fjords. If you’ve been around since our...

As I mentioned at the end of my last blog, we took a 17 hour ferry across the Baltic Sea to Stockholm in Sweden, just like they did in...

Each of the Baltic States are surprisingly different, yet have many interesting similarities, all of which have made them what they are...

When we last left you, we were boarding a bus heading north to Lithuania, the southernmost of the three Baltic States. Why Lithuania, you...

We got to take an overnight train as we traveled from Berlin to Krakow in Poland. The distance by train takes at least 6 or 7 hours, and...

It’s still crazy to me to think that just 30 years ago East Germany meant something a lot different than it does now. Now it’s simply a...

So, forget everything I’ve been saying about places being beautiful. We’ve been spending the last week in the Middle Rhine Valley, and it...

You just don’t often hear much about Belgium. Tucked away between France, The Netherlands, and the sea, it’s not necessarily on the...

No, that’s not a typo… things are just spelled a little differently in Dutch. Anyway, we traveled from Paris northeast to Amsterdam by...

I’ll admit, I was just a bit apprehensive as we headed into France. I don’t check the news but enough things popped up about unrest in...

Our strategy for travel is pretty simple: we pick some strategically located cities with sites we want to see to use as “bases” and...

I wasn’t kidding when I said Italy is a beautiful country, but stepping off the train into the small Austrian town of Bad Ischl is just...