Images of fast moving clouds black­en­ing the sky and a light­ning bolt allow­ing me to see the sil­hou­ette of the castle  in front of me raced through my mind. Chris and I were about to visit Bran Castle, one of the mag­ni­fi­cent castles of Romania.
My ima­gin­a­tion was going wild. I couldn’t help it. Dracula was [...]

Currently Chris and I are in a hotel room in Diyarbakir in eastern Turkey. I thought I could post a bunch of random photos for you guys to enjoy. They cover all sorts of dif­fer­ent things and times during our trip, includ­ing our Sahara trek, Italy, Morocco and Turkey.
We plan on heading into Iran in three [...]

As prom­ised, here are some shots of our time in Romania. We only had a week there, so were only able to make it to Bucharest and Transylvania. Lucky for us, we also enjoyed some time with a fellow we met through CouchSurfing. Fatih is from Turkey, but is working in Bucharest. We had a [...]

I’m sitting on a comfy bed in our quaint hotel room in Brasov, Romania.  Located within the old city walls, we can almost touch the house across from us. We took a four-hour train ride here yes­ter­day from the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
After our time in Madrid and Morocco, it was refresh­ing to see the lush [...]

Hi all,
I figured we owed you all a proper update out­lining our plans for the next little while, aside from the cryptic ref­er­ence to detours and cheap flights in the last post. On April 26 we will be leaving Lanciano, heading north on a train to a town near Milan called Piacenza. Laura’s friend Christine [...]