by Stranger In This Town | Sep 19, 2016 | Around the World, Europe
My absolute favorite stop on my 3-week whirlwind Italy trip this summer was Cinque Terre. There’s no contest. The five villages along this Riviera are the adorable, picturesque, iconic multicolored towns I always dreamed about – with a charming ambience...
by Stranger In This Town | Jan 17, 2016 | Europe, Featured, Great Britain, My Adventures, United States
Happy New Year, everyone! As always, it’s been a whirlwind of a holiday season — I barely had enough time to breathe, let alone publish the dozen drafts I have ready for this blog (and then my host server was down for an entire week!) Like I usually do, I...
by Stranger In This Town | Oct 16, 2015 | Around the World, Destinations, Europe, My Adventures
This is the second installment in my Irish Pilgrimage piece. You can read Part I here. We jump-started our latter goal (to experience as much trad music and traditional pub nightlife as we could) in Dublin, where our Northern Ireland friends advised us on the best pub...
by Stranger In This Town | Sep 11, 2015 | Around the World, Destinations, Europe, My Adventures
Before I begin this story, let me preface it by saying that this is 100% personal: an account not just of my adventures in Ireland, but of a long-awaited opportunity. I’ve spent months trying to put it together, partly afraid of publishing something so intimate...
by Stranger In This Town | Jun 12, 2015 | Around the World, Budget Travel, Destinations, Europe, My Adventures
We debated for quite some time over whether we should rent a car and stay in hostels during our time in Iceland, or rent a camper van (a more expensive endeavor than a normal car) and act as a pair of snails: with our homes/beds on our backs, so to speak. After much...
by Stranger In This Town | Sep 29, 2012 | Around the World, Destinations, Europe
In honor of the one-year anniversary of my trip to Vienna and Prague (mostly because I cannot believe it’s been a year), I decided to pull out some of my favorite memories of the two-week adventure. A friend of mine and I stayed with another friend at her flat...