Category: Recap
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Week #18 ~ Recap
1,077 miles, 1 plane, 2 trains, 2 countries, 3 cities, 1 UNESCO World Heritage site, 4 museums, average of 12,000 steps/day, 238.54 UNDER budget for the week. We have now entered the part of the trip we have been most eagerly anticipating ever since we started planning it: a month in Italy. The food, the…
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Week #17 ~ Recap
285 miles, 2 countries, 2 big cities, 1 Chunnel train, 2 friends from home, 1 West End show, 2 museums, 2 UNESCO World Heritage sites, 1 haircut, 12,000 steps per day average, and $161.98 UNDER budget. Our count list from last week doesn’t seem very long until we think of the span of history influenced…
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Week #16 ~ Recap
23 years together, (18 married), 3 countries, 2 friends, 1 museum, 1 castle, 1 ferry, 363 miles, 1 super long town name, and $651.65 over budget. Our overage is a result of buying plane tickets for the France to Italy leg, and the London AirBnB. We came to the United Kingdom to meet the Schengen…
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Week #15 ~ Recap
1119 miles, 4 countries, 7 cities, 1 airplane, 2 rental cars, 3 UNESCO sites, and $117.02 OVER budget. Whew! No wonder we’re tired! Budget overages were due to $160 on gas and about $1200 on lodging. After 4 days rest in Scotland, we flew to Ireland and have started a whirlwind driving tour around the…
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Week #14 ~ Recap
792 miles, 3 countries, 3 cities, 1 overnight ferry, 1 panicked incident, 2 hotels, 1 Airbnb, $14.41 UNDER budget. We originally planned to leave Amsterdam on October 2nd, but extended our stay for a day when Marla left her bag on the tram on the way to the ferry to NewCastle, England that held her…
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Week #13 ~ Recap
831 miles, 2 countries, 2 cities, 1 concentration camp, 2 walking tours, 1 gigantic beer festival, 2 hotels, walking an average of 11,300 steps per day, and $129.45 UNDER budget. From Munich to Amsterdam ~ from a city with a historic glockenspiel and a palace modeled after Versailles, to a city with some of the…
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Show Me the Money: Part 1
Food was undoubtedly our biggest expense. Dining out is clearly much more expensive than cooking for yourself. However, when you’re at a campsite or AirBnb, you can’t fall back on a well-stocked supply of pantry staples so you have to work with what you have available. This meant a lot of the meals that I…
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Week #12 ~ Recap
273 miles, 2 countries, 2 cities, 2 trains, 1 bike rental, 1 haircut, 12,000 steps per day, 1 palace, 1 church, 1 cathedral, 3 museums, 2 hostels, $129.55 UNDER budget—yay!!! To both our surprise and delight, we have discovered that our experience in Western Europe has been less expensive than we expected mostly due to…
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Week #11 ~ Recap
4,055 miles, 1 state, 2 countries, 1 TransAtlantic flight, 2 old friends, 11 family members, and $728.26 OVER budget. Notice a trend? Major budget diversions include about ~$500 in lodging reservations and $712 in travel insurance for Western Europe. Two items that are not included in this overspend are new tires for the car…
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Week 10 ~ Recap
1,048 miles, 2 states, 2 old friends, 2 locks on the Erie Canal, 2 parents, 1 cousin, 1 final North American destination, $261.20 OVER budget. We started the week in Maine, trekked across New York then bombed south for a long driving day to our final NoAm (trademark pending) destination with Erin’s parents in Reston…