After exploring Budapest, Paradé in Amsterdam, half liter Hoëgardens in Brussels, hiking to a remote beach in the south of France, and countless marathon train trips Jed and I found ourselves in Porto Portugal, contemplating the rest of our trip over glasses of Port with Brendan. He had just joined us in Porto, somehow managing [...]

We survived our Turkish road trip unscathed. In total it was 6 days and we made stops in Ayvalik, Balikesir, Efeses, Bodrum, Cappadocia and Hatusus. We arrived back in Istanbul on Sunday night. Our plans have changed significantly since our first rough itinerary. We wound up setting off Monday on a bus for Bucharest Romania. [...]