Traveling with your significant other demands a level of intimacy that supersedes anything your life at home together can possibly prepare you for. This isn't the kind of intimacy that you won each other over with in the first place, but rather zero privacy, sweat caked socks and underwear, diarrhea and fungal infection style intimacy. Gross.
Read MoreWho eats fish for dessert? I'm inordinately open minded, but sweet syrups and savory crusts do not mix with the pesce. Yet here we are in the small town of Markow, about 2 hours east of Warsaw, and every polite guest's nightmare is staring at me with a succession of cold, dead eyes. There are SIX different fish based desserts piled onto the doily laden candle lit table before me. I hate every dish I see, but feel obligated to try all of them.
Read MoreIt seems like you can't go 5 minutes in Berlin without getting tangled up in the force field like aroma of a kebap shack -- and just like star warring vessels caught in the magnetic overhaul of a vastly more powerful craft, you'll find yourself throwing open the doors and staring down that spinning meat on a spit before you know what grabbed you.
Read MoreWe spent 5 days in Berlin recently, which was definitely not enough time to properly appreciate such a magnificent capital of culture and history.
It was the first visit here for both of us -- though we had already visited Germany on multiple occasions, we somehow missed out on what is arguably the finest city that Deutschland has to offer.
Read MoreWhen the opportunity to visit our dear friend David's brother Giorgi in Sweden arose, we snapped it up immediately. Hop on a short bus ride (3 hours from Oslo) to a totally new country to meet a mysterious individual who was only described as "an amazing chef with a massive beard?" Alll Abooooarrddd.
Read MoreOne of the more unusual attractions worth visiting in Oslo is Vigeland Park ("Vigelandsparken"). This free civic outdoors space is home to over 200 nude sculptures crafted by a single artist, the venerable Gustav Vigeland.
I mean -- most places in the world, a scene like this one above ^ would draw healthy skepticism about the sanity/intentions of it's creator-- but in Norway, it's all good baby!
