We were in Korea during the MERS outbreak so a respiratory-based epidemic is not exactly new to us. Generally, we are level headed travelers who have made it through countless North Korean threats, earthquakes, typhoons, floods and just day-to-day living. The Covid-19 virus is scary but we want to lay it out calmly but realistically. … More Our Guide to Coronavirus/Covid-19
I’m sure it comes as a huge surprise to everyone that we have just quit our jobs in Japan and canceled the flight. We’ve tried to keep people updated on the application, our process and everything. But deep down, this whole time, we’ve felt like something wasn’t quite right. We kept justifying things to ourselves … More Pulling the Plug on Japan
It’s that time of year again. All the things we could’ve blogged about but didn’t because it wasn’t long enough, or we were busy, or whatever. What have we been up to? What haven’t we been up to? We leave in exactly 10 days and we are not handling it very well. Our days are spent skulking … More Winter Short Stories
Tostada is toast. But it is so much more than toast. It’s a really good baguette toasted and served something delicious upon it. Every adult in Spain eats one at 11:30 and half the restaurants have punch cards buy-5-tostadas-get-one-free kind of deals. 1 is super cheap, you can get tostada and a coffee for 2.60 … More Recipe: Tostada
Initially we thought we would have to fly directly to Japan from Spain (and couldn’t visit the USA between). But when we told our schools we’ll be leaving around March 15th and they said couldn’t pay for a partial month. So we realized we could go back to the USA during this time. But only … More Visiting the USA and Japan FAQ
As we said, we had been happy in Slovenia. So when it came time for us to leave we were less than happy. But at least we had our final destination to look forward to, Zagreb. We woke up super early to catch a bus. Our journey to Zagreb involved a bus to Ljubljana, then … More Zagreb
Our final adventure in Slovenia was in and mostly around Kranjska Gora. It’s a fairly famous ski town and we had heard it was great for New Years Eve celebrations. Mostly we went to see the gorgeous Julian Alps. To clear it up -the Alps go over 8 countries and 750 miles (1,200 km). So … More Kranjska Gora
We left Ljubljana fairly early in the morning. We walked by the American and Russian embassies which are right next to each other. A fun fact is that this phenomenon doesn’t happen anywhere else on earth – for some reason they’re neighbors in Ljubljana but everywhere else they don’t like to be that close to … More Lesce and Lake Bled
I may not learn languages very well but I have learned how to spell and pronounce a whole slew of words that once stumped me: Cheonggyecheon, Okonomiyaki, Polizeidiensthundeinspektion. I’m happy to add Ljubljana to that list. While deceptively shorter than the others it isn’t pronounced how it looks. We were saying “Loob-lee-an-na” but that is … More Ljubljana
We only had one day in Maribor. We didn’t really know what to do there but we have been trying to reduce the amount of time traveling. We could’ve taken a train directly from Vienna to Ljubljana but why do that if it goes through Maribor? We could stop, spend the night and enjoy ourselves … More Maribor and Kapustnica Recipe
