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(this was done with the old WordPress format and looks really bad, sorry) Over the mountains (and appropriately, Metallica’s “Fade to Black”” blasting from the bus driver’s sound system), the Black Sea came into view and we began our 10 days of traveling along almost the entire Eastern European coast of the Black Sea, fromContinue reading “Into the Cyrillic, Part 2: The Black Sea”

  NOTE: This was imported from the older format and looks really bad. Sorry. We’ve had buses stop to get gas a few times, randomly stop for cigarette/bathroom breaks or to drop off or pick up someone in the middle of nowhere, but our trip out of Santiago de Compostela to Porto had a first –Continue reading “Portugal Pops the Cork”

(Old Word-Press format so it looks pretty bad, sorry) We left Saarbrucken, not via Luxembourg City but out of the smaller of Frankfurt’s two airports, Frankfurt Hahn.  Took a mini-bus from Saarbrucken through acres of mustard fields.  Of course, Frankfurt was surrounded by mustard.  We started our Iberian Peninsula trip at the finish line-Santiago de Compostela inContinue reading “Walk This Way”

Saarbrucken is in the middle of nowhere, which means, in Europe,  it’s only 1-2 hours from everything  This gives us multiple airport and airline options to get back to it.  We recently have been using Ryan Air the super discount airlines that we love and hate.  Their slogan should be “you pay literally nothing soContinue reading “There is more then one city in Germany?”

It\’s embarrassing how we sound like a drunken Rick Steves in our praise of this peninsula, but every morning we saw our shadow and it was another day of blissful experiences in Spain and Portugal, earlier posts here https://thechosenfugue.blogspot.com/2019/06/walk-this-way.html and  https://thechosenfugue.blogspot.com/search/label/Lisbon We rolled into Madrid early with the sunrise on a red eye bus from Lisbon surprisingly refreshedContinue reading “Iberian Groundhog’s Days”

Spring is here and flowers are everywhere. Beverly Hills Mendocino Eugene Portland  New York Bray, Ireland Mainz, Germany Saarbrucken, Germany We spent most of the winter hibernating in the U.S..  We left Europe to escape the cold only to fall into a foot and a half of snow in Eugene with the worst storm in 100Continue reading “Dog-Days of Winter”

Birds and the Bees One thing we have been pretty surprised with are the animals, or lack of,  that we have seen. Even though most of our travels so far have been during fall and winter, we figured we would still see plenty of birds and bugs but that has not consistently been the case. Continue reading “Birds and the Bees”

This blog was imported from an old platform and looks bad, sorry.   Laundry room with a view @ Club Aphrodite Our last stop in Cyprus included more ruins and our free timeshare resort week. Ancient buildings repurposed many times, now deserted; toppled stones; relics from previous eras; villas passed through many hands over the years;Continue reading “Ya-Sas Cyprus”