To the motherland! We hail from Lithuania on my Mother’s side. I grew up eating pierogies and sour rye bread when my Grammie would visit from Wilkes-Barre, PA where her father arrived in the early 20th century to work in coal…
New Year’s Eve! Our home in Vienna is the Intercontinental. It’s a very nice hotel, which I got with points from the time IHG gave us a million points (about 30 or so free room nights) when we did the short film…
At least today we intend to start late. Yesterday turned out to be long, despite a very slow and argumentative start. Today we start late with intent, and will keep it short. The rains are harder and colder today. Fortunately…
“Does this get on our top ten list?” Emma asks, as I pull all my gear out of my bag. It went from hot to cold in the space of 30 minutes and I need to get warm despite the…
Eggs, cheese, bread and Nescafe again. It’s monotonous but adequate. In fact it’s a very nice breakfast, but we don’t eat cold cuts, honey drenched pastries and olives for breakfast much. Emma gets cornflakes. Lily struggles the most. Oddly, she…