Tiffany and Greg Around the World
While romping from the snow-capped mountains of Australia to kung-fu training in China to Germany’s Oktoberfest with a quick side trip to the London 2012 Olympics, one can assume a few interesting conversations were had:
British friend: I wish I could vote for the US president
Yes people, this is about that.
Greg loves video editing.
So easy to make something look really awesome that, in truth, went so very, very, VERY wrong…
The doctor recommended stitches but Tiffany convinced him to go with medical tape first. She still has the scar.
Travel is all about learning about other cultures right? How other people do things differently from us and how that works out for them.
Like snow…in August.
For example, Australians don’t really believe in chairlifts at their ski resorts and when Americans show up it provides a source of much amusement to them.
So then we worked for a few months at an Australian ski resort.
Disembodied audience voice: Wait, it snows in Australia?
Yes, you read that right:
And now for a taste of things to come –
Continue reading “Kung Fu Preview”
One of several murals over the urinals in Oktoberfest beer tents.
Who do these people think they are, Kiwis!?
We did our very best to have as authentic an experience as we could at Oktoberfest
Continue reading “Lederhosen!”
As we’ve said some things are just too time sensitive to wait.
The first was when we managed to make it to the London 2012 games and even scored tickets to what we came to call “The North-American Throwdown.”
This time we find ourselves at another festival of human endurance:
Continue reading “Oktoberfest!”
OK, it’s not what we focus on here and it’s out of the timeframe of the blog but Alexi asked real nice, gave us a place to sleep for the night and showed us where to get the best dang dumplings we’ve pretty much EVER HAD so we’re gonna pay him back and review his hostel for him.
Now, you could easily say this review is predicated on the fact that he gave us a free night at his hostel (that’s called disclosure people) but we’d contest that being as we actually stayed there for about a week and paid full price for the privilege to do so.
The first thing you need to understand about Russia: the hostels are not what you are expecting. In America, or, at least, in our experience of our home country, “hostels” are scary places where homeless drug addicts live. The rest of the world, not so much.
Russia is unique however because their hostels are not, by far and large, buildings that are actually purpose built for mass housing. The overwhelming majority of Russian hostels are actually converted soviet-era apartments.
Which, if you’re a cold-war nerd like Greg, is fan-FREAKING-tastic! We got to stay in a converted soviet-era cold war apartment! Come on, that’s cool!
Continue reading “Chillax Hostel”
Melbourne, VIC, AU
Then one day about a month into it, we woke up and realized that cleaning up horse poop at 3:45am 6 days a week sucks. In our defense, we were kinda tired that month so it took a while.
Now that were done “playing with horses” we actually had the time to start exploring this town. Melbourne is one of Australia’s largest cities. It didn’t occur to us what that would mean to two people who spent the previous year wondering around island countries with national populations smaller than most European villages.
Looking out over Auckland Bay towards Mount Rangitoto.
We don’t do this very often, but there are a number of pictures that we’ve taken around Auckland that just don’t have much of a story to them, but are still pretty cool. Here they are for your viewing pleasure!
