Europe

Another amazing year is coming to an end – our 2nd as full-time travelers! It’s hard to believe just how much we have done this year…check out some of our photo highlights of 2011!

I just finished my week-long road trip around Iceland and am still in awe about the diverse landscape I encountered in this spectacularly beautiful country!

For the first time in seven years, I spent Christmas with my family in Germany and I had a blast experiencing German Christmas markets, baking cookies and having some quality family time!

My last few days in Germany were spent with family and friends and with a short visit to Berlin – and I couldn’t leave Europe without one last proper German breakfast, of course!

Despite never returning to his home island of Corsica, Napoleon is still the island’s most famous son. Especially in Ajaccio, the town where his birth house can still be visited, his likeness is used to market almost anything!

We have come across quite a few market oddities during our travels in Central America – a basket of live iguanas tied-up and ready to be cooked in Leon; fried grasshoppers and the last squeal of a pig’s life in Oaxaca – but never anything like what we saw in the Tuscan town of Lucca this week.

Spending most of August in Berlin has been the best idea I’ve had in a while! I tried to soak up as much as possible of the glorious summer days here – read why I love Berlin in the summer so much.

Returning to my adopted home London for the first time in nearly half a decade made me much more emotional than I would have ever expected.

I had the opportunity to join a half marathon in Israel later this month – of course I jumped at the chance to run along the Dead Sea! For now: marathon training in freezing cold & snowy Germany…

It had been years since I last strolled down the narrow streets of Rome’s Trastevere neighborhood.. and I was happy to discover that it hadn’t lost any of its charm!