We only got one week in the Netherlands, which we split between Amsterdam and Den Haag. It was rainy and cold most of the time we were there, so we ended up spending a majority of our time playing board games. We visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and […]
After saying goodbye to Jeff’s parents in France, we hopped a train to neighboring Germany. The weather was starting to get colder and the leaves were just beginning to change, perfuming the air with that crisp autumnal fragrance. It felt like a fairy tale come to life. We visited the […]
We spent three weeks between France and Switzerland, two weeks of which we were joined by Jeff’s parents, who were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. Despite these being two of the most expensive countries we visited on our entire trip, we all had a blast! Note: Most of our purchases […]
Italy was one of the countries that I especially was looking forward to, mainly because I am Italian. (My last name, Osani, is not Japanese as many people believe–admittedly I sometimes don’t bother to correct them–but Italian.) It was sweltering and a little jarring to see how dirty some of the […]
Originally, we were going to do this part of our trip as another mini-trip from our place in Serbia, but for various reasons chose to leave Belgrade a month earlier than planned and just travel straight through to France. We sped through four of the must-see cities in this part of Europe just […]
