We remember well: the challenging cold, the unmatched warmth, and the old novelty of all the places we traveled to during our ten weeks away from Vancouver. It isn’t possible to fully experience the ebb and flow of nine countries in such a short time, but having walked several thousands of footsteps in places both familiar […]

Athens, Greece was a reunion of sorts for the both of us. While in the process of emigrating to Canada from Poland, Tomasz’s family made a temporary home of Athens, its sun soaked walls and trees a welcome change from the harshness they were leaving. My connection to Athens extended from a dear friend who, […]

We had the luxury of spending several days in Budapest as our flight to Athens would not happen until 5 days later. In typical fashion, we walked and walked everywhere, with few set destinations in mind. Doing so usually lends itself well to many interesting surprises, one of them being the discovery of a Vivian […]

We’re the type of travelers who prefer to ease our way into a city and take in its personality at a steady pace, even as we speed from one to another through the countryside; however, there was no quiet osmosis of culture for us, no gentle and demure introduction to this city. That’s not the […]

After spending Christmas in Poland, we said our farewells in Nysa and boarded the bus for a 3 1/2 hour journey to Prague. This would be the last time in a while that we’d have the opportunity to indulge in familiarity and home-cooked meals, however, we were eager to be back on the road. We […]

Poland, oh, Poland. The Polish-Canadians who speak of you aren’t always the kindest when they think of your unsavoury grey buildings, your fiercely cold winters, and the hard life you offered under Communism’s unrelenting fist. You are no longer a destination to them and yet they speak of you with such passion and nostalgia, even […]

Our visit to Berlin was a short one, but it took no time at all for us to be fully fascinated by the “open air” nature of a city steeped in struggle, tragedy, intrigue, and terror. We wondered if this unique (maybe not so unique) combination of qualities could be found anywhere else in Germany […]

We found ourselves on the phone at 1:57am one mid-June night and moments later had asked ourselves, “Did we just book a trip for two and a half months to Europe?” We had a vague idea of Amsterdam, our first overseas travel destination together, but with the opportunity to extend our layover by a few […]