Catch Our Travel Bug

2016-05-03

Cute as a button – Activities for the kids. Central Park Chisinau. “Rust never sleeps.” Neil Young wrote about it, and Moldova is living proof! A tiny...

2016-01-03

Old Town Minsk – Holy Spirit Church I’m really not sure what our expectations were of Belarus. As a former part of the USSR and still maintaining extremely...

2015-12-29

Heading into Salantai on the 169 After a hearty breakfast, whipped up by the enthusiastic landlady, we headed south out of the sleepy little village...

2015-12-04

 How we saved $1000 just by dissing our bank! Just a quick digression from the big bike ride to let you all in on something cool we just discovered....

2015-10-14

Sunny days in Latvia. Abavas Rumba, just outside the village of Sabile After our great experience with Latvian rural hospitality, we were mentally and...

2015-09-20

Unlike Tallinn, Riga’s Old Town is not confined within a wall. It spreads out to cover a much larger area. especially when you include the well-preserved...

2015-09-02

I wrote this post because it took me ages to hunt down specific information on how to obtain a Belarus Visa in Vilnius without booking a tour with an...

2015-08-22

A very understated border crossing! One of the most difficult things for us to believe when we crossed the Estonian-Latvian border was that we’d only...

2015-08-18

Sun shining brightly.. In Estonia, it’s legal to ride on the road or the footpath. It’s not necessary to wear a helmet in either circumstance – Exiting...

2015-08-05

We were very excited to be heading to our first new country on this trip. Both of us were really looking forward to the Baltic States. No-one we’d talked...