Photo Blog Series: Signs from Home

When you're living overseas, there are definitely times when you get homesick.  We find that we get excited when we hear an American accent or see something from home.  This blog is dedicated to those memories that have made us smile while living in the UK and traveling through Europe.  =)

Restaurant "Orlando" (Munich, Germany)

Dry cleaning store (Berlin, Germany)

Pizzeria (Rome, Italy)

Great memory of home for the two Orlando-natives (Bath, England)

All the unhealthy American food you could ask for in a
local specialty delicatessen  (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

A spaghetteria (Bamberg, Germany)

This Florida girl has sorely missed palm trees and sunshine!  (Lagos, Portugal)

Definitely appealing to the Americans in the area at the
Christmas Market (Bury St. Edmunds, England)

A local hotel (London, England)

American donuts at 7-11 - the Norwegians love this place!  (Oslo, Norway)

It was the most I've ever spent on a box of cereal, but it was so worth it
to have a taste of home!  (Cardiff, Wales)

Another restaurant named "Orlando" (Madrid, Spain)

You can tell somebody misses college football...  =)  (Silves, Portugal)

We saw this bus on one of our first weekends in the UK (Bury St. Edmunds, England)

The American Embassy (Berlin, Germany)

Photo Blog Series: Streets of Europe

When we visited Paris a couple of years ago, Brian took a photo of me in a quintessential Parisian street.  That started the idea of finding typical streets in different cities for a "Streets of Europe" collection.  It was a fun challenge.  Hope you enjoy this series of photos from our travels!  =)

Cotswolds, England

Tuscany, Italy

Mittenwald, Germany

Monaco

Zurich, Switzerland

Lagos, Portugal

Malaga, Spain

Bacharach, Germany

Edinburgh, Scotland

Prague, Czech Republic

Bad Kreuznach, Germany (my mom's hometown)

Photo Blog Series: Climbing in Europe

Maybe it's because he's a Florida baby who has never lived anywhere with elevation, or maybe it's just because he likes the views, but for some reason, Brian loves climbing EVERYWHERE we go in Europe.  We've done so many tours of cathedral towers that I can't count them and somehow he convinces me to go to tops of mountains on a regular basis now.  Here's the best climbing photos we have from throughout our adventures.  Hope you enjoy the views too!

On a crazy hike with Chris on  Karwendel Mountain (Mittenwald, Germany)

Brian saw this sign and just kept climbing on the rocks!  (Tintagel Castle, England)

Coming out of the winding staircase to the top of Bath Abbey (Bath, England)

Hike along the beautiful beaches of the Algarve Coast (Portugal)

The Zugspitze in Germany, the first time Brian saw any form of snow (Garmisch, Germany)

Climbing and ropes course with Chris (Thetford, England)

Walking along medieval walls - Brian loved these! (Rothenberg ob der Tauber, Germany)

In the clouds on top of Untersberg Mountain (Grodig, Austria)

It's hard to tell but there was a crazy incline on this ramp!  (Copenhagen, Denmark)

One of many tiny staircases we have climbed - this one led to the top of St. Peter's Kirche  (Munich, Germany)

Nature walk through the woods (Mittenwald, Germany)

At 10,000 feet on Titlis Mountain (Switzerland)

Photo Blog Series: City Tours and Audio Guides

When Brian and I travel to larger cities, we generally try to do some sort of tour to get a feel for the area and learn interesting tidbits you don't read about in guidebooks.  Some tours we have done haven't been great, but others have been a lot of fun and given us a lot of good information.  The same is true for audio guides, which we generally pick up in museums to help us navigate them better, especially if the audio guide is in English but all of the signs are in another language!  Here's some of our memorable tours and audio guides from the past two years.

Open-top bus tour on a beautiful day in Spain (Barcelona, Spain)

Free walking tour - notice the giant red umbrella! (Prague, Czech Republic)

Brian and our friends doing an audio tour around Windsor Castle (Windsor, England)

Boat tour along the harbor (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Audio guide of Portchester Castle (Portsmouth, England)

Audio guide in the raptors of a Baroque church (Vienna, Austria)

Brian, Jon and Emily listening intently to the tour guide (Bath, England)

Boat tour along the canals of the city (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

"The Little Train" (Nice, France)

Audio guide at Hampton Court Palace (Greater London, England) 

Tram tour around the city (Vienna, Austria)

Having fun with the large audio guides  =) (Nuremberg, Germany)

Open-top bus tour (Madrid, Spain)