Scottish adventures

As promised, here is a post dedicated to the few adventures we've taken recently outside of Glasgow. We also took a trip to the amazing Cairngorms National Park last April, so you may see my post on that here. Firstly, the Scottish countryside is completely full of three things: 1) great natural beauty, 2) impressive …

Sudtirol

Here are some photos of my time in Sudtirol (South Tyrol), Verena's home region. It's Italy, but it didn't feel Italian. In fact, this was my 2nd trip to Italy and I still have yet to visit the major tourist areas (Rome, Florence, Venice,  Cinque Terra, etc.). Photos from the valley where she grew up:   …

Bavarian-Tyrolean Roadtrip

Voila, encore les vacances! Well, we've been working for 6 weeks now, so it's time for some more vacation. I started off by driving with my friend, Verena, one of my Moroccan adventure co-conspirators, from Strasbourg back to her hometown of Goldrain, Italy. It is in the German-speaking part of Italy (much to my surprise …

Day trip: Heidelberg

We headed straight to the schloss! Heidelberg is lovely. Also, it has an incredible history. Two thumbs up. I am a lucky human. It got sunny:   Apothecary museum (Free entry!!):   Mark Twain spent time in Heidelberg and wrote about this GIGANTIC wine cask in his book, A Tramp Abroad: And there was a students' prison. …

Vacances de Noel 2 of 3

Carcassona: Next on the agenda was Carcassonne, the castle of my history-loving dreams. Carcassona is the Occitan name of the city, Occitan being the spoken language before the region became part of France a couple hundred years ago. Occitan seems very similar to Catalan, and they’re both Latin-based languages. Anyway, we just spent 1.5 days here, …