My FAVOURITE HAT EVER. I've worn it from Europe to the Middle East, and it has NEVER let me down. Check out the review and link!

These pants are amazing! Cost-efficient, great material, and can do it all from the trail to the club. Check out the review and link!

Wonder what I'm taking around the world? I lay it all out here (literally), including links to my Amazon lists.

************** This post kicks off the planning section of our blog! For more thoughts on planning your trip, stay tuned to this page....

"Hello my name is Loka, and I'm a special pug. I live in Belfast, Ireland, and me favourite thing is a hug" - Loka the Pug on YouTube....

Jason (from Dublin) was ecstatic when we told him we were headed to Galway. He couldn't recommend it enough. We had been warned earlier...

Ireland at last! We were ecstatic to learn that Ireland wasn't in the Schengen Area AND that our Eurail passes were valid there. That...

When we first started out, Jo realised that we would be missing Oktoberfest by just a few days. We, for some reason, thought it was in...

Nine hours on a train from Krakow to Budapest. Nine hours. On a single train. In the same seats. Talk about rough. But we finally made...

When we were "planning" The Great Gallivanting, we didn't know what we wanted to see or do in Eastern Europe, but we knew we wanted to...

The transition from Berlin to Warsaw was a shift from Western to Eastern Europe and the start of a bit of an unfamiliar culture. We've...

Four in the morning comes early when you're traveling, but that's how we were getting to Berlin. Well, Nuremburg, actually, because that...

Malaga was recommended to us by Tatyana, a girl we met in Valencia. She was headed there after while we were headed to Madrid. Well,...

Well, like we said, no rest for the weary. After our unexpected night in Illescas, we boarded a train bound for Sevilla to go watch our...

We had two days to spare in Madrid after Colmenar Viejo before we headed to Illescas. We spent the first day doing an audio tour of...

How on earth did we end up in Colmenar Viejo, a town an hour north of Madrid via bus, which neither of us had heard every heard of? Well,...

Valencia. What can we say about Valencia? No, really, what can we say? We did see much of it. Not because there wasn't anything to see,...

What an awesome day of randomness! This was definitely a highlight of the trip! How did we end up in a small town like Cazalla de la...

Sevilla! What a gorgeous city! We're not really sure what we expected, but Sevilla certainly exceeded all of our expectations. At its...

We both were excited to visit Vienna. We knew people who worked in Vienna during the Cold War, and we'd read about how much went on in...