well.  officially home from london and settled (except sleep – why does sleep hate me?!) anyway it was an AMAZING trip all around.  i knew i loved london from my previous visit (8 YEARS AGO!!) but there is something about london at christmas time.  so, how to sum up our 12 day vacation?  here are some GEMS of london (photo diary edition – be sure to click the arrows to see more pics!):   this definitely wasn’t a GEM but… Read more »

when my aunt and i decided to go to montreal, and we were talking about what we wanted to do there, food and drinks were at the TOP of our list.  we didn’t really have any specific places we wanted to go, but we knew we’d run into some DELISH options.  it’s safe to say that we didn’t have any BAD food while we were there, but here are some of our faves: tommy – we hadn’t heard of tommy.  but… Read more »

^^ WE FOUND KEN DOLLS!!!  you may remember…the struggle was REAL! here’s a look at what we got up to for the rest of our time in warsaw!  it was a really great vacation with the PERFECT amount of GOING and the perfect amount of RELAXING!  for a closer look, don’t forget to click on the pictures! and that is it!  that’s warsaw!  i am so glad we went!  i would definitely go visit other parts of poland but as… Read more »

now that we are home and i am reflecting on our holiday, there are some things i thought you should know.  i feel that you may really appreciate some of the “quirks” (shall we say) and what travelling with the parkinsons + an abbott entails exactly 🙂 phil LOVES to do laundry.  he does it daily.  it’s a good thing we stayed in an airbnb with a washing machine.  he claims none of the laundry is his.  but he definitely… Read more »

last year when i was in budapest for christmas, i wrote this post for my old blog and as it turns out, there weren’t many posts to follow.  ANYWAY, i was thinking about christmas and all of the wonderful trips i have been on over the past years as an international teacher.  and i think this time of year is a great time to look back at this post, add a new adventure, and be super thankful for all that… Read more »

i was thinking today about how much i have changed as a traveller.  when i left wawa elevenyears ago, i was not well travelled but i was DEFINITELY more adventurous (and WAY younger).  i don’t think that either way is better than the other, i just think it’s interesting how much i have changed.  and i know that some people would prefer the way i travel now and some people would prefer the way i travelled then.  and that’s what… Read more »

’twas the night before christmas and all through the house…WE WERE CRAFTING! we arrived in poland on the night of december 23 so when we woke up on christmas eve, we had two things on our minds:  get groceries and decorate for CHRISTMAS!  although the grocery part was a bit challenging, we were able to find some essentials (that have somehow lasted for three days of CLOSED everything!) but our mission to decorate was SUPER successful!  we spent the day… Read more »