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How to plan your Visit to Open House Athens

March 27, 2023

I’ve been visiting Open House Athens events since 2017. I have a loose way of organizing which places I want to visit and in which order. My goal is to see as many buildings as possible in one day, with the least amount of queueing. The inspiration for putting my strategy in writing was a lady I met at last year’s Open House Athens. She was behind me in the queue for the Italian Embassy and holding the Open House map. The map had many notes on it and even information on which buses to take. I found it interesting…

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The essential guide to Brasov

March 20, 2023

When I planned my Romania itinerary, I added Brasov to the list. It’s a beautiful town in Transylvania with a mix of gothic and baroque architecture. If you have more days than we did in Romania, Brasov can be your hub. You can take day trips to Sighisoara (like we did), Sibiu, and Bran. Now let’s see what Brasov itself has to offer. Related: The essential guide to Bucharest Brasov Old town We entered Brasov through the newer part of the cities in the south. We crossed blocks of flats and large crossroads until we reached the old town. Which…

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Europe

The essential guide to Bucharest

February 12, 2023

  My trip to Bucharest in June 2022 was not only my first in the city but also one of my least researched trips. Up until my trip I had only seen glimpses of Bucharest on Instagram. They were not enough though to give me a clear idea of what I was going to see. Bucharest is a city I visited with no expectations and turned out to be one of my favorite destinations. I fell in love with its architecture and took countless photos of buildings. It’s easy to see why it was called Paris of the East. Due…

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Europe

Italy and Switzerland Road Trip

April 6, 2022

If you’re reading this blog you know that I love traveling. COVID made travel abroad harder and I borderline started to get depressed about it. So when opportunity for a weekend abroad arose, I didn’t let it go. We took this trip in early October 2021 when Omicron wasn’t a thing yet. My husband was already in Lake Maggiore for a work related event. I joined him there after re-visiting Milan and our road trip in Italy and Switzerland began. Day 1 Milan to Locarno My trip started with (re)visiting Milan for a few hours. The Duomo place was of…

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Greece

3 Days at Daios Cove

February 7, 2022

Last summer after almost 2 years of staying in Athens we finally went for vacations in Crete. A mix of COVID-19, pregnancy and postpartum kept us from traveling all that time. We saw family and friends and let our one-year-old daughter roam around. We also escaped for 3 days sans baby in Daios Cove. The choice of the hotel was a case of “Instagram made me do it”. That’s where I encountered many photos of the resort (and the beach) which enticed me.  It was worth it though! For the first time in my life, I spent 3 days in…

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Greece

Hiking Olympus Mountain

July 11, 2021

Hiking a mountain (let alone Greece’s highest) was not on my bucket list. In the summer of 2019, the opportunity to hike Olympus Mountain arose. I just had an unsuccessful frozen embryo transfer; my husband was on a project in Abu Dhabi, and I wanted to keep myself busy. So, I said, what the hell, I might hike a mountain as well. As they say, “Life lies outside of your comfort zone”, right? The hike was organized by a former colleague of mine. We were a team of 10 people, half of them experienced and half novices. We spent a…

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Asia

Dubai One Day Itinerary

October 14, 2019

It is true that on the day we visited Dubai the weather conditions were not ideal. The temperature reached 45-47 degrees Celsius that day. The real feel was 56 degrees Celsius. *insert scream emoji here*. Add reduced visibility because of the sand to the mix and you have a less than ideal day to visit any city.   We were already in Abu Dhabi with no plans to revisit the region anytime soon, so we went ahead and took a taxi to Dubai. I asked Kazuko on Instagram about a Dubai one-day itinerary as she used to live in the city….

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