Special deal for Europe!
On our Facebook page, we recently announced that we’ve partnered up with GoWithOh! to cover Vienna as a destination to celebrate the holidays, the food, the holiday markets, and so on. Well, they just announced a special deal for our readers, too! If you book a stay with them between now and the end of the year (the reservation can be through 31 January 2014, but you have to book by 31 December 2013), make sure to use the code...
Rasnov, A great day trip from Brasov
As I’ve indicated previously, Brasov is a great base from which one can explore Romania, especially Transylvania. There are plenty of day trips that are easy to do from here. We recently visited nearby Rasnov and had so much fun I wanted to make sure to write about it. Fellow travel bloggers Travis and Calli of Have Blog Will Travel joined us on our trip. It’s always more fun to do things with people whose company you enjoy. Getting...
Embracing the mundane
We tend to be rather adventurous, always looking for something new to experience, or a new area to explore. Generally, when we first arrive in a new place, we drop our stuff off wherever we’re staying, and we hit the road to explore. We are coming up on our 2nd month in Romania, and most of that time has been spent in one city. In reviewing our last year, that’s the longest we’ve spent in one place since the oasis in Morocco a year...
Visiting Europe via Romania
If you’ve been following our time in Romania, you know many of the reasons why we love it here and think it would be a good base. I wanted to highlight a bit more about using Romania as a travel base, however. Romania is in a great location in Europe. While its position being surrounded by other countries wasn’t always a good thing in its past, it offers some advantages in the present day. One of which is being served by many low-cost...
What’s Next?
As we’ve been reexamining our plan for a long-term base, it’s been a bit of a challenge. We really love Romania, and when I think about what’s next, I go back and forth. But we have some upcoming travel that puts us in a prime position to explore other options, so I feel like we need to do that at a minimum. After spending the last 2 years in places that really didn’t care too much about the Christmas holiday, or even New Year’s, we...
