Reportage on the goings on of Craighan
On the sage advice of some friends – to whom we are now greatly in debt – we put Sarajevo on our itinerary. Coming off a three week excursion through four countries and eight towns (including day trips) with my parents*, we pinned our hopes on Sarajevo to be a nice place to just sit in cafes and sip coffee.
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Kraków is unlike any of the other cities we’ve been to. It has similarities to Prague and Budapest, but it really is its own thing. The churches here were all distinctive and different, often combining multiple styles and architectural elements without any apparent concern for consistency. The city is a great blend of history and natural beauty.
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We arrived in Amsterdam just in time for the start of Pride Week, which this city is very, very enthusiastic about.
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Living in twenty-one different apartments over the past seven months, I’ve had the opportunity to live without a number of creature comforts that I might previously have said were essential. A lot of it is specific to our current lifestyle and mode of traveling, but it has given me food for thought about what I might be able to do without once we’re back in the States.
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No Deep Thoughts™ this week, just a list of activities and an inventory of museums we’ve visited since we got to Berlin at the beginning of July.
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Craig jokes that our tagline for Ávila should be: “Ávila: they can’t all be winners.” We did not love our stay there, which is a bit unfair to the city because some of it was just circumstances and timing.
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The thought of living as a tourist in Europe for the indefinite future is certainly appealing, and it’s something we seriously considered when planning this year, but some of the best times we’ve had have been with our family and friends who’ve come to visit us.
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We had such a great time in Vienna! We were there for two weeks, which didn’t feel long enough. It’s such a great city. I had no idea that I would like it as much as I did.
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Prior to our arrival in Budapest, we had only been dealing with Romance languages. We know a fair amount of Spanish (far from fluent, but enough), and so figuring out what to buy in Spanish, Roman, and Parisian grocery stores was relatively easy. However, I was wayyy out of my depth in Budapest language-wise, so much so that I never really picked up anything in the twelve days we were there before we moved on to Prague.
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Valencia wasn’t originally on our list of cities to see, so it’s funny that it was our longest non-Madrid stay in Spain. However, we were looking to slow down a bit and also kill a little bit of time in Spain before we had to be back in Madrid to pick up our foreigner identity cards, and a beach town seemed like as good an option as any.
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