Silly ideas, like driving more than 2.5 thousand kilometers in one stretch, are definitely not our thing anymore. That’s why we split this year’s (already third!) journey to Motril into five days. Even this number was a bit too low for our liking – 14 days seem optimal. Unfortunately, as we had to arrive in […]
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A Vietnamese Cooking Class in Hoi An
The owner of the An Bang Beach Village restaurant has a smart plan: he uses a geocache hidden at his place to lure hungry and thirsty treasure hunters. And it works – at least for us it did! It’s a neat little restaurant and just a perfect place to enjoy a few smoothies and egg […]
Getting a Taste of Asian New York
It took us a while, but we’re back with our trip report from Kuala Lumpur where we spent two weeks in October/November 2016: Our lifestyle and alarm clock don’t really go well together. Just like many of you, we do NOT enjoy early mornings. However, when you have to get up to catch a flight to […]
Phan Rang: Windy With a Chance of Bricks
We thought it would be a good idea to stay a few days in Nha Trang and then a few days in Phan Rang to see which city we’d prefer as our base. But once again we have learnt that planning too far ahead is a nonsense :-). You probably read the story about how Lilly […]
Slow-travel Log: Nha Trang. Or Нячанг?
After a few euphoric days in Ho Chi Minh City, we hopped on a plane and moved some 500 kilometers east to the seaside resort of Nha Trang. Our original plan was to spend four nights, but because of some unplanned events caused by Lilly and Alex, we ended up staying for a week. Fortunately, […]
Slow-travel Log: Vieuphoria
After a small delay, we’re back again, reporting from Ho Chi Minh City AKA Saigon. What we’re experiencing here three days in a row is pure euphoria – the food is awesome and omnipresent; the people are so nice and friendly; the city is relatively clean, even if you compare it to our home country; […]
Slow-travel Log: Alam Lestari Mangrove Beach
As our snorkeling plans didn’t work out (the waves were too wild), we really had nothing to do. The kids played with a bunch of local children and we finished some work. After a nice lunch, we visited a few temples and were robbed by a gang of monkeys – those suckers stole our water! […]
Slow-travel Log: Balinese Cremation Ceremony
We had no idea what to expect when we accepted Ketut’s (the owner of Air Sanih Homestay) invitation to join them in a ceremony. Initially, we were filled with joy and excitement, but that lasted only until we were told that it was a cremation ceremony of his eldest brother. Little did we know, we […]
Jatiluwih Rice Terraces
Rice terraces are, without any doubt, one of the most iconic sights of Bali that we just had to experience on our own. As we went to Ubud about a month ago, we decided to visit the famous Tegalalang Rice Terraces. Unfortunately for us, Google reviews did not paint the full picture and the place […]
From Prague to Thailand: Five People, Five Backpacks, Five Time Zones
Believe it or not, the few weeks we had in Prague seemed like only a few days. We were super lucky to find this awesome apartment. It was in a house with a garden where the kids could play, climb trees, eat apples or build houses for fairies 😀. We were super busy and had accomplished a […]
Taking the Shortest Way? Not Our Thing!
As the summer was coming to an end, it was time to make a short stop in Prague to get ready for our trip to Asia. But taking the shortest way would be boring and too easy, right? Well, our oldest one desperately needed to visit Paris and we had a translators’ powwow in Hungary. […]
From Netherlands With Love
It was good to remind ourselves how exhausting it is to fast-travel like “normal” tourists and how much we prefer slow traveling over hopping from place to place in a quick succession. The prospect of slowing down again after zooming through Europe has never sounded more appealing. Even though we had to drive about a thousand kilometers from […]
A Quick Road Trip Through the Balkans
The next planned destination during our round trip through south-east Europe was Croatia. We were not really keen on joining crowds of our fellow Czechs who have a soft spot for this country, but we made a promise to the kids that we were gonna attend their favorite Junior Krav Maga Summer Camp. Last year, they […]
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Lefkada: The Other Half
Time flies when you’re having fun! That was the case with our remaining three weeks in Greece. As we’ve already mentioned in our previous post, we’ve met the Bolen family – Matěj, Madlen, Kryštof (8 years), Vojta (2,5 years), and their dog, Sněhura. They have been coming to Lefkada for the past seven summers so […]
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Up the Acheron River
If you ever happen to be in this part of Greece, walking up the Acheron river is something you don’t want to miss. For us, it was possibly the best trip during our month in Lefkada (others like it, too). You start slow, just walking through icy-cold water which quickly turns nice and warm as soon as […]
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Getting to know Lefkada
Time flies and we are wrapping up our second week in Lefkada. Here’s a short summary. Where we are staying The decision to go to Greece was made shortly after Christmas. Finding a suitable apartment for our family in Lefkada was quite a challenge (we might be relying on our beloved Airbnb too much) so we ended up in […]
CZ → SK → HU → RS → MK → GR
After two long and exhausting months in rainy and not so warm Prague, the day of our departure was finally here! We kept our resolution from our last trips (“No way we are bringing this much stuff next time!”) and managed to cut the luggage in half, freeing not only our car’s roof but also the view […]
From Portugal to Prague in Less Than 2 Minutes
Sorry, guys, we got a little lazy after coming back to Prague so here’s just a short video that sums up all the fun we had on our way from Peniche, Portugal, to Prague, Czech Republic. We went through Bordeaux (thanks for having us, Attila!), a small village in French country-side, and Zirndorf’s Playmobil Park (suburbs […]
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Exploring Space – and Local Bike Trails
Yeah, I’m sure you’ve all heard the story about my expired driver’s license. Well I don’t like to push my luck so going from the airport on Saturday and there again on Sunday was the only driving I did this week. But that doesn’t mean we were sitting home and bored ourselves to death. No […]
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Busy Week in Tarifa
Talk about challenging week! First, Kaja got flooded with work and then his parents called that grandma had a stroke and is in hospital. Her health has been rather deteriorating during the last couple of months so we decided it would be best for him to fly to Prague. Thankfully, there were many happy moments […]