Travel Stats for our year away - Technically 7 mths South America 3 months 4 countries 30 different cities/towns 2 memory cards (well... 1 and a 1/2 filled) 21 365km by air 4076km by bus 275km by train 1140km by boat 600km by car New Zealand Just under 3 months (travel technicality) 1 country 2 islands 37 different cities/towns A few different wineries 29 822km by Air (longest travel hours for Deb, not Frank) 5497km by Car 198km b...

Our first leg of our UK stop was in Leyton Buzzard to visit with Alice. We stayed for a few days and enjoyed our walks and exploring of the "shires". One of our visits was to Oxford to visit the campus and town. The stories and the history that we learned as we strolled through the old buildings and colleges were awesome. Luckily we visited Oxford before Cambridge - as history goes you are not allowed to go from Cambridge to Oxford, only the other way around! F...

We were on and off the rails in Berlin with the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn. Their transit system is very efficient and extensive. We decided to buy the Berlin welcome card which paved the way to frequent travel. Our apartment was close to Check Point Charlie and a short walk to Brandenburg Gate. We tried to pack as much as possible into our two days starting with a tour of the Olympic Stadium built in the 30’s for the 1936 Olympics. The tour provides a mix of h...

With more of a feel like Budapest, Prague is a lively and busy city, with lots to do and approximately 300 beers to taste test. The Czech Republic consumes the most beer per capita in the world each year...we both thought it would be Germany. Exploring the streets was like walking back in time with cobblestone roads, uneven sidewalks, and an amazing cross section of architecture. We spent our days with the free walking tours exploring both the castle (more like...

Vienna is a big city, our Airbnb was a bit outside the city centre giving us a good walk into the centre before getting on the hop on/off bus. It has a different feel than Budapest as it feels more sprawling. We concentrated our visit on the centre of the city which is surrounded by a circular boulevard, the Ringstrasse. The Ringstrasse was once the city’s defense walls, but today it carries horse and buggies, trams, bicycles and much more. One thing that w...