I am not a Paris guy; I am not a Vienna guy, I am not a Dubai guy, and I am not a Prague guy…. Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but I am glad we only spent 4 nights here. It is three things that I don’t like in…
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Wroclaw, Poland
It is a bit embarrassing, but it took us almost all of our 6 nights in Wroclaw to learn how to correctly pronounce it. Polish is a bit challenging… “VROT-swahf”. Wroclaw is our 3rd sizeable Polish city we have visited with over 1 million people in the metro area. On this trip, we are missing…
Torun and Krakow, Poland
We made it to our second and third Polish towns and had another great week of walking through beautiful old town squares and eating lots of perogies. We spent 3 nights in Torun and then 6 nights in Krakow. Let’s start with Torun. It is a much smaller town than Gdansk and Krakow, and sometimes…
Gdansk, Poland
Direct trains and buses were not easily available to travel from Lithuania to Gdansk, so we took a cheap flight from Vilnius. Our first stop in Poland was in a really beautiful port city. We were amazed by the buildings when walking around the first night, and couldn’t believe that these Flemish and Scandinavian looking…
Vilnius, Lithuania
We made it to our final Baltic country of Lithuania so I can officially say we have completed the Trifecta. It seems like everyone we met here were visiting all 3 Baltic countries so it doesn’t seem that unique or unusual. Many people were also visiting Finland which is where we started our trip this…
Riga, Latvia
We have visited our 2nd Baltic country – Latvia, and it was very similar to the first. Latvia and Estonia are both relatively new countries but have beautiful capital cities with amazing old town architecture and cobblestone streets. We spent our first day in Riga on our “free” walking tour being wowed by all the…
Estonia- Tallinn and Parnu
Another new country for us- Estonia. Only 1.4 million people living here including about 450,000 in the capital of Tallinn. A lot of visitors to the Balkans only visit the 3 capitals (Tallinn- Estonia, Riga-Latvia, and Vilnius-Lithuania). We found ourselves planning the easy route like everyone else, so we decided to add on the smaller…
Helsinki, Finland
Yep, we are back in Europe! It might surprise some to see that we left Seattle when the summer wasn’t over yet. We love to be in Seattle all summer, but we also like to be warm all year. Helsinki is about the same latitude as Anchorage, Alaska, so we wanted to see Finland and…