This morning for breakfast, we decided to try the bakery across the street from our apartment. I was able to decipher some words in Czech that were similar to English, and I bought us two different pastries that had broccoli in them. Oh.My.God. I swear to you that these were the most delicious pastries I…
Today we decided to wander around Prague to see what was near us. As it turns out, there’s a lot! We stumbled upon an outdoor market with beautiful vegetables. I’m hoping to find it again so I can buy some apples. Then we came upon two rows of food vendors. It’s been difficult to find…
Despite the fact that the beds in our train cabin were extremely comfortable, I did not sleep much. The train is noisy and jostles around, and I’m just not good at sleeping in those conditions. This, of course, didn’t help my cold, which has now, as I write this, blossomed into completely plugged sinuses. I…
I am unfortunately fighting off a cold right now but still managing to have a good time. Somehow I remembered London being more expensive than it turned out to be on this trip. I now know that London can be fairly reasonable, but Zurich is the pits! Every time I got a tall (aka small)…
This morning Jim and I ate a traditional European breakfast of bread, meat and cheese… really good bread, really good cheese and really good prosciutto. Yum. It was actually sort of brunch because we ate it so late. In the early afternoon, Esther met us at the hotel, and we all went to the Zurich…
I didn’t sleep too hot at Esther’s, for what reason I cannot comprehend. On one of the occasions that I was awake, I checked my phone and found a message from Jim, who was due to arrive the next day: “Computer malfunction dumped fuel and returned to Atlanta.” Needless to say, this was a worrying…
My least favorite part of traveling abroad is… the traveling. I love BEING in foreign places, but the traveling between them can often be tiring. That’s why, when I travel, I pick a few places to visit for longer periods of time. Travel can seem very unlike a vacation when you’re just hurrying around all…
I took an hour bus ride this morning to Picadilly Circus – a very “exciting” part of London crammed with theaters and expensive stores. London is a great place to navigate as the streets do not ever change. I used a map from 10 years ago and was able to find my way around just…
Before leaving for Europe, I gave a lot of thought to my technology choices. In particular, I was considering what to do about my cell phone issue. Whilst I lived in Florida, I was using T-Mobile as my cellular service. They had 4G service, great coverage and a good selection of phones. However, there is no…
Today started off fantastic because I slept most of the night despite the fact that they were the wrong hours for me to be normally sleeping. In fact, when I woke up around 7:30 a.m., it was really 2:30 a.m. back home in the States. One of my hosts, the lovely Shalene Wong, made me…
As I sit here eating Triscuits in a flat in London, I think about how strange it is that just last night I was in Detroit. It’s strange because Delta felt I should fly two hours in the wrong direction before flying to London. To their credit, my travels were extremely smooth. Flights were on…
We are a society of the here and now. Many decisions we make as individuals and as a nation are short-sighted and focus on immediate gain. The result is that our lives get messed up over the long term, and then we get frustrated wondering how that could’ve happened. I recently experienced this phenomena firsthand.…
Some people may see my constant posts debunking the inaccuracies from the “other side” as negative. So, here is a list of all the things I am in favor of. I am in favor of: love making my own healthcare decisions being able to defend myself without allowing others to go on mass killing sprees…
We’ve all been there… coming off a painful breakup and using retail therapy to ease our aching heart. The problem was that, at the time of my retail therapy, the stress of the breakup had caused me to lose a rather large (and unsustainable) amount of weight. But all I could think about as I…
Technology has made our lives go so fast and furious that we are often left with a feeling of emptiness at the end of the day when we realize we weren’t fully present for any of it. We were texting or updating our Facebook status or rushing from place to place in an automobile. Many…