Istanbul is such a crossroads of the world: Turkey is one of the few countries on the planet with its main territory straddling two continents […]
Month: June 2025
A Wedding in Mcely
Finally, the event that was the genesis of our summer Europe adventures: Oliver and Veronika’s wedding in the rural village of Mcely in eastern Czechia. […]
Prague
After an almost sleepless flight across the Atlantic via Istanbul, Mum finally joined us in Prague and was greeted with lots of big hugs from […]
Brno
I do love traveling around Europe by train. It’s so easy rolling into the station a few minutes before departure, no security checks, hop into […]
Budapest
From Riga it was a short hop on an Air Baltic flight to Hungary’s capital. Budapest is an incredibly grand city, with Buda Castle and […]
Riga and Western Latvia
It was quite a pretty drive along the coast from Tallinn to Latvia’s capital on a luxurious (and cheap!) Lux Express coach: endless forests of […]
Tallinn
The Valtenbergs are never ones to miss a wedding, especially one in somewhere as fun as eastern Czechia! When we received the invitation to Oliver […]
AVS Promotion II
Amazing to think today marks the end of an era: no more kids attending Alexander Valley Elementary! It seems like only yesterday when Lilia was […]
Healdsburg Junior High Promotion
And off to high school she goes!