Category: Travel
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Istanbul, Turkey
There’s nothing like some big city chaos to jolt the senses. With its melting pot of different cultures and good eats, Istanbul reminded us a bit of a Star Wars cantina in city form. Our five days there was quite the whirlwind. When thinking about how to summarize our experiences in this massive city of…
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Cappadocia, Turkey
Every now and then we feel the need to mix it up from beach time and there is no better opportunity than taking an Instagram-worthy pilgrimage to the dead center of Turkey. The region of Cappadocia is a tourist hot spot, namely for the hot air balloon tours that hover over the area daily, and…
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Turquoise Coast, Turkey
Our first nine days in Turkey we planned to spend traveling along the southwestern part of the country commonly referred to as the Turquoise Coast or Turkish Riviera. Turkey is the first country on our trip that requires a paid visa for Americans, so a few weeks before our arrival we bought e-visas online –…
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Athens & Rhodes, Greece
The journey from Dubrovnik to Athens was our first flight since LA to Amsterdam four weeks earlier. The Athens airport is pretty far outside the city proper but a €9 train drops you off in the main tourist area. Our Airbnb was in a neighborhood called Koukaki, only a 10 minute walk from the famous…
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Croatian Coast
After driving across nearly the entire country of Bosnia & Herzegovina we re-entered Croatia. The scenery during the drive was picturesque with scenic overlooks, vineyards, and islands not far off shore. Our first stop was Dubrovnik, which is particularly famous for its walled old town built right along the sea. Many know it as the…
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Northeast Croatia + Bosnia & Herzegovina
The most direct method to travel from Budapest to Zagreb, Croatia is by bus (about five hours) which was easy enough except for what ended up being an hour stop at the border. While that day we were due to meet up with Abby’s mom, Diane, and stepdad, Morgan, to travel to eastern Croatia before…
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Budapest, Hungary
The train from Vienna to Budapest is a quick 2.5 hours and we arrived at our hostel, The Loft, in the early afternoon. The name was very fitting – you dial into an old unassuming building in the inner city, go up a few floors in a dual occupancy elevator, and then walk up a…
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Vienna, Austria
We only scheduled two nights and one full day in Vienna so after arriving in the early afternoon and checking into our teeny tiny hostel room, we set out to explore the sites of the inner city, about a 30 minute walk away. First stop was the Hofburg Palace which used to be the imperial…
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Prague, Czech Republic
After arriving in Prauge we decided to walk the 30 minutes from the train station to our Airbnb. The walk went right through the center of Old Town and across the iconic Charles Bridge to the Malá Strana neighborhood. Malá Strana is incredibly central and we stayed right on the main drag (aka tourists everywhere)…
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Berlin, Germany
The train from Amsterdam to Berlin took a little over six hours heading straight east. Once we arrived, the the two of us + Jesse and Luigi (eventually) found the right metro line to take us to our home for the next three nights, the Sunflower Hostel. We’ve found that hostels are fun for the…
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