Europe

After a few days exploring Athens we took caught a nine-hour ferry ride to the island of Santorini where we finally found the rest and relaxation we were in great need of. Four months into this trip we happily...

I can't sit still for more than five minutes if it's a glorious day outside and there's trails to hike, walls to climb, bikes to ride, etc. So all that laying-around-in-sand nonsense that happens on beaches...

What do you get when two Popes enter a bar, I mean…St. Peter’s Square? I don’t know, I’m still trying to figure out the punchline. If you have a good one, comment below. Or read other funny...

With a little bit of good luck we ended up spending our first day in Italy at holy mass with Pope Francis and Andrea Bocelli in St. Peter's Square! We followed that with a busy few days visiting all the...

It may not be worth doing a review for Magic Bus Hostel in Istanbul considering it was shut down by the police. It's a place we want to remember though, so here are some of the details about it. For a full...

After a long ferry ride returning to Athens from Santorini, we stayed in Hotel Niki in Piraeus that was close by the ferry port. The ferry didn't arrive until well after midnight, so we thought it would be...

Whenever I thought of Spain, I would first think of siestas--the power naps of the Spaniards taken in the early afternoon. Before we visited Barcelona I thought this meant we would walk down quiet streets,...

A somewhat unplanned visit to Barcelona, thanks to a £1 Megabus ticket, left us madly in love with the Spanish city. During our stay—made possible by our friend Vita who put us up in her apartment—we...

We had a lovely stay at Katerina and John Hotel in Perissa, which is on the Greek Island of Santorini. Katerina and John are the friendly owners who picked us up from the ferry terminal and their family helped...

Sometimes going for the cheapest room in town isn't in the smartest idea. Sparta Team Hotel in Athens, Greece, was cost effective, but if we were to do it over again we'd pick to stay somewhere else. Private...

We were in Rome for a few days and chose to stay at Pensione Ottaviano for its prime location near Vatican City. The location proved to be great, but unfortunately, the hostel was the first place we...

Hotel Viator gave us the much needed relief from our Paris hostel experience. It provided a quiest atmosphere and a clean private room. It was also in an area of Paris that we hadn't explored yet, so it gave...

We had originally booked Blue Planet Hostel in Paris for six nights, but by the fourth night we opted out to stay in a private room at another hotel. Blue Planet Hostel had some inconveniences like only one...