Birthday Travels Year V- Regensburg, Germany

Whelp, I've finally hit the big 3-0. So, do I feel any older? Nope. Any wiser? Absolutely not. Still insistent on birthdays abroad? Oh, yeah. And this year, the location was Regensburg, Germany. Now, I have been to many places that I would say are highly and unjustly underrated. Regensburg, unfortunately, takes the cake on …

Berlin.

Really, I'm ashamed that it's taken me so long to get to Berlin. With direct buses and trains in under 5 hours from Prague, it should have been somewhere I had gone my first year in Europe. Especially as a history lover. With air travel being so crazy right now (flights being delayed/canceled, or missing …

A Combination of Fairytales and Nightmares

***Note: I wrote this a few days before the Czech Republic went into lockdown due to the Coronavirus. As the crisis grew exponentially direr each day, it felt wrong to post this entry- one that encourages travel- with the future being so uncertain. Today (May 25), however, the Czech Republic has officially reopened almost everything …

Dresden for the Day

This year, I received a surprise for Easter - a spontaneous visit from my mom! It was exciting to see my mom after 8 months and great to play 'tour guide' by showing her around Prague. She even came with me to school one day to watch me teach! The whole trip was a pretty …