November 2011

I was half-tempted to call this post “Random Things” or something to that effect (confession: the working title of posts like this one is usually “funny things that Slovaks do”). Sometimes these are my favorite posts, but other times they end up feeling kind of listy. I’ll tell you at the end which category this  read more

Germany & The Czech Republic

I confess.  I forgot completely forgot about this series of posts.  Let’s try to get through these last countries quickly so that I can give you a more relevent post! Our first stop in germany was Herlach; it was in Herlach that we slept in a castle.  It was drafty, but majestic.  One day during  read more

Switzerland: Lausanne + Geneva

Although we loved Italy, the lone act of leaving the country was beautiful; we drove through the Alps to get to Switzerland. We arrived in the evening and were welcomed with such hospitality by a nice older couple.  They had their own pizza making bar set up for us and their own pizza oven on  read more

Italy: Rome + Assisi

I’ve been to Rome before, but I’ve always said I would happily go again. There’s just so much to see there, so much ground to cover. My favorite part of being there the first time was the feeling that on every street corner there was something famous, some monument, statue, or ruin. This time on  read more

Round Trip Tour: Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic

At 5am tomorrow morning, Burke and I, as well as 10 others, will pack ourselves, our backpacks and our sleeping bags into two vehicles and begin our Heritage Tour of Europe. We will drive all day until we get to Rome and on Wednesday morning we will get to see the Pope!  After Rome we’ll  read more

No, Slovakia hasn’t eaten us alive…

Things are changing, things are changing.  Not only has Burke redesigned our website (do you like it?), but we are introducing a new page to our blog.  The YWAM page.  It isn’t currently, but very soon it will be password protected.  We’ll tell you why on that page, but please, please, please leave a comment  read more