What We Ate: Genever

And by “What We Ate” I mean:  “What We Drank.” I scheduled a distillery tour and tasting at Wynand Fockink for Severin and I. We paid 17.50 euros per person and we were supposed to get 2 genever tastings, 2 Read More

Bike Culture

If you ever find yourself in Amsterdam, I recommend you rent a bike on your first day there. Why? Because you will have so much fun, you will not want to travel around the city in any other way, it’s Read More

Out & About in Amsterdam

It’s probably human to visit a foreign place and think about whether you could live there, or perhaps that is just a side effect of our lifestyle. Whenever I go somewhere, I wonder what life would be like. Would I Read More

What We Ate: Amsterdam

I’m blogging out of sequence (backwards, actually)– our Karpaz trip happened the first weekend of July, and now I am moving on to Amsterdam, which was the beginning of June. And I still have a few posts from the end Read More

Lost in Translation

It is funny to me how subtle differences in language can really make a big difference. Cyprus is, for all intents and purposes, an English speaking country. When our garbagemen came around for their holiday tip, they spoke English. Rarely Read More

The Churches of Northern Cyprus

These days, Cyprus is clearly segregated between a Turkish Cypriot north and Greek Cypriot south. Though many wrongly assume this was always the case (and only reinforced by the presence of Turkish troops in the north since 1974), it is Read More

Aphrendika

Before leaving our hotel in Karpaz, I breezed through our copy of Lonely Planet and noticed that there appeared to be more ruins quite close to our hotel. We weren’t entirely sure that we got on the right road, which Read More

Agia Trias Basilica

Cyprus is full of hidden treasures– there are no iconic ruins like the Parthenon or Colosseum, just small glimpses of what used to be. Aside from a few well-trodden sites, the others aren’t so easy to find, especially since the Read More