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Exploring Nuremberg: A Day of Unique Discoveries. City Walls and 🍺Beer Halls! 🍻(Best city in Germany?)

May 3, 2026 by hollyGS

 We woke up fairly late as we had had quite a few early mornings in a row. I made coffee for myself and Jives joined me at around 9am. We made some toast with smoked cheeses and had a lovely slow morning. We didn’t set out on the day’s adventure until around 11:30am, late for us. We started our day’s wandering off at the wall that surrounds the old town of Nuremberg. We walked around the bottom of the walls […]

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Exploring Prague to Nuremberg: A Travel Journey

April 26, 2026 by hollyGS

We set our alarms for 6:30am to catch our 8:34am train to Cheb. The train had been “cancelled” but in a weird way that an English speaker might be confused about. We had coffee and bread and cheese in our room and then checked out. The elevator in the hallway made a sound as the doors opened that sounded like “cheezin”. Certainly the elevator isn’t talking about cheese, right? I like to imagine a weird world of whimsy sometimes…  We […]

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Exploring Prague Czechia: Clock Tower Views and Hidden Gems

April 12, 2026 by hollyGS

We woke up a bit later, close to 8am and had coffee in the room. We then headed out to a restaurant not too far away called “Fat Cat” for a delicious breakfast. We both ordered the same thing, eggs benedict with salmon and an americano coffee. Not a super authentic Czech breakfast, but soooo good. Stop #1 – The Old Clock Tower We then headed to the old town square to climb the clock tower, something I had wanted […]

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Berlin to Prague by Train! Self Guided Walking Tour of Prague’s Main Sights!

March 29, 2026 by hollyGS

We set our alarms for 5:30am to catch the early 6:53am train from Berlin HBF to Prague Czechia. We were able to get out of the hotel and drop the key off in the check out box by 6am. We then walked 12 minutes to the Berlin HBF and figured out where our train would be leaving from (platform 11 D-G) from the big screen showing all the arriving and departing trains. We then bought two coffees and two pretzels […]

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Self-Guided Walking Tour: Discovering Berlin’s Landmarks

March 15, 2026 by hollyGS

We had gone to sleep at 8pm the night before, as it had been very close to two days for us without sleep. Our hotel was basically on a train track, so the noise was almost constant. We slept on and off until 11:00am. I woke up so thirsty! We set out not long after waking up, into the pouring rain for our one full day in Berlin.  We walked to Alexanderplatz first, stopping to buy water (the bubbly kind […]

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FLYING TO BERLIN GERMANY For The First Time! (Vegan Curry wurst!!)

March 8, 2026 by hollyGS

And so it begins. After a very long time since our last trip in February eight months ago ( I guess that isn’t too long ago, but my work has been some long hours), we are finally on the move again! Our flight to Berlin was pretty late in the day (9:05pm) so we had lots of time to do last minute packing and things at home. My mom and Rob came over to visit and get some instructions about […]

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One Full day in Manila 🇵🇭 to Tokyo 🇯🇵 to Chicago 🇺🇸 to Toronto 🇨🇦 (Layover in Japan)

February 15, 2026 by hollyGS

We headed down to the mall below our accommodation for breakfast and chose a Singaporean place called “Nanying”.I had a noodle dish with soup on the side and Jives had a Laksa like thing… Not quite a soup but with the peanut flavours.  We then walked about 30  minutes to the nearest metro station and took the train to “United Nations”. We wanted to once again check out the intramuros but on our own time this time.  We started our […]

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Swimming with SHARKS!! in Malapascua, Cebu, Philippines (baby sharks 🦈🦈🦈)

February 1, 2026 by hollyGS

We woke up at 6am and went down to breakfast at 7:20am, but it wasn’t set up yet even though breakfast started at 6. We decided to change into our bathing suits and head to the marine reserve area again to swim and see if we could spot some baby sharks. Only one other guy was swimming in the marine area, and it was very calm waters. We tried swimming out further in the roped area this time and Jives […]

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Japanese SHIP WRECK BEACH in Malapascua Cebu! THE MOST PERFECT BEACH in the Philippines!

January 18, 2026 by hollyGS

I woke up at 5am as usual and made us coffee. We drank the coffees in bed and watched the sun rise over the harbour from our balcony overlooking the arrival dock. At about 7am I called my mom on Whatapp to show here the beautiful view from our room. It had snowed a lot in Canada, so it felt a bit like we were “rubbing it in”, but I think my mom was happy for us, sitting in a […]

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