World Trip

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Category: places

  • Relaxing in Kerala: Kochi and Kumarakom

    Desperate to escape the chaos of the north, we decided to fly from Jaipur to Kochi, one of the biggest cities in Kerala. Kerala is a State in India that runs along the lower Southwestern coast of India, and is a place we had really wanted to visit when we were in India four years…

  • Ranthambore/Jaipur Part II: Land of the Monkeys

    It was kind of nice to return to a city after our wildlife outing in Ranthambore. Jaipur, I think, was maybe the best choice for that return. It felt cleaner, quieter, and more manageable than the others we had visited. Part of that might be due to the fact that despite being founded in 1727,…

  • Ranthambore/Jaipur Part I: Land of the Tigers

    The next two places we visited, Ranthambore and Jaipur, are almost perfect opposites. One is a rural town that abutts a national park full of wildlife and natural beauty. The other is one-third of India’s Golden Triangle, the three main cities that bring tourists to the northern part of the country (Agra and New Delhi…

  • Adventures in Agra

    Our next destination following Bodhgaya was Agra. We had heard Agra was not a great city and that people basically only traveled there for the Taj Mahal. This did not make us  terribly excited to go there, but I had been really disappointed to miss seeing the Taj Mahal when we were in India four…

  • Italy, In Modo Rapido

    Since Italy is such a wonderful place, we didn’t want to shortchange it by omitting it from the blog, despite the fact that we have been in India for the last couple weeks. And Italy is great. It has beautiful cities, nice people, and amazing food. It was a nice transition for us from the…

  • A Tale of Two (Holy) Cities: Varanasi and Bodhgaya

    Fear not! We have not been silent on the blog because Delhi has sucked out our souls and slipped us into a deep despair, but because we have been busy traveling throughout North India. The quality of our internet has also dramatically decreased since arriving on this continent, which makes it harder to upload pictures…

  • Garmisch-Partenkirchen

    Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a quiet mountain town that reminded me a bit of Lake Tahoe. There is a nice combination of tourists and locals, high-end clothing and cheap eats, and a general sleepiness on the off-season. It’s also a weird reminder of how hard it is to get away from Germany’s infamous past. The town was…

  • To Munchen, and beyond!

    While we missed Oktoberfest by a few weeks, we still found some nice stuff to do in Munich. It’s a nice city for walking around, and while the fest wasn’t happening, it’s still an amazing place to drink beer. There are a couple local brands that caught my attention in particular: Adechs and Augsutiner. We…

  • Vienna: the Before Sunrise version

    There is this movie that came out in 1995 called ‘Before Sunrise.’ It stars a very young Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke as Celine and Jesse, and it consists of them spending a single night together walking through Vienna. There were two sequels, Before Sunset and Before Midnight, the most recent of which came out…

  • Krakow

    Poland was pretty awesome, I have to say. I’ll let Marisa talk about the more emotional aspects of our trip to the country and focus more on our experience in the city of Krakow itself. While it has a lot of the classic ‘European’ traits like really old buildings, large market squares, and light rail,…