The Maiden Voyage
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Kaiserschmarrn, oh what a mouthful…
Someone (OK so no one) once asked why I was willing to try so many different types of food. We aren’t talking about choosing tripe Pho over chicken Pho or the lengua (“tongue”) burrito over a pork carnitas one but the tendency to order dishes from the very bottom/back of the menu. The ones the Continue reading
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Viennoiseries, or the “Things of Vienna”…
Austria, Vienna in particular, makes one feel, no matter their economic or social standing, like an oaf. A lumbering, uncoordinated, unsophisticated oaf. Refinement pervades this city and extends to the rest of the landlocked country. It makes you wonder though. Why so much fanciness? Could it be because Austria is surrounded by the European big Continue reading
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So this is Europe…
I’ll be honest. Austria is not one of those dream destinations if you are a fun-loving thirty-something couple. At least, it wasn’t for us. But Austria is as European as they come. Even more so after finding out that it was the seat of the great and influential Hapsburg empire. With this in mind, we Continue reading
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Hatethrow Airport…
And so after a fretful night of plotting (how to finagle British Airways into giving us compensatory travel vouchers), suppressing the unfounded fear that this fateful vacation would land us at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and tempering garden-variety giddy celebrity-crush excitement, we finally boarded the aircraft; our first grand trip to Europa was Continue reading
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Love at first bite…
We dabbled once internationally in our twenties; a work-sponsored weekend jaunt to Cancun. It wasn’t until our early thirties when things started to really take off. The travel companion of a friend we affectionately call our “Seattle mom” backed out last minute and she had no one to accompany her to Europe. Would we be Continue reading
