A close friend recommended that we visit a unique little bakery/art boutique called Blue Hen one Sunday afternoon, so off we went! The Blue Hen was celebrating its first anniversary in business, and it was positively booming. We arrived to see a lineup that was so long it went out the door and around onto…
Category: Travel
Layover in Paris
There’s no direct flight to Addis Ababa for us, so that means layovers are a part of every trip. Mariam does a very good job of picking good pit stops when this happens, and this time we elected to stop in Paris to visit a cousin. Of the two of us, Henry is much less…
On the road again!
Well everyone, we ended up taking an even longer than expected blog hiatus after declaring we were back. Whoops! Well, we’re really really back this time. And how is this different from the last time? Well, for one, we’re going on a real trip after two long years of being shut in: we’re headed back…
Valencia Part 5: Night Life
We knew Valencia was a beautiful city before coming here. The beach, the old town, the parks, the weather… All sounded great! What we did not know is that the night life is out of this world! The expression New York never sleeps has to be debunked, cause we have news for you: Valencia is…
Valencia Part 4: The Beach
[Mariam]: A vacation is not a vacation if the ocean is not involved. [Henry]: I like to think that good food is more important. [Mariam]: 🙄. Thankfully, it’s easy to combine these two in Valencia. Right by Playa Malvarrosa there are countless restaurants offering fresh and authentic paellas. So yay 😀! With this, we headed to…
Valencia Part 3: Old Town
On day three of our trip, we decided to go to the old city. After spending days in the park and then another day visiting universities, we thought it would be wise to finally hit the downtown area. We started our adventure at Estación del Norte. This is the main rail station of Valencia. It…
Valencia Part 2: The Turia Gardens
Our first day in Valencia was spent searching through the city’s halls of higher learning. What was Day 2? Well, given that we’re history buffs, we decided to roam along the Turia Gardens – roughly 9km of beautiful park, trails, and attractions that were created after the River Turia was diverted some 3km away in…
Valencia Part 1: Universities
Unless you haven’t noticed, we are both kind of nerds [Henry: “Kind of”? 😛 ] [Mariam: Well, Henry more than me :)] [Henry: I am nerd incarnate! ]. So the first places we went to when we arrived in Valencia was the massive Universitat Politécnica de Valènica (founded in 1968) and the (considerably less massive…
Happy Times at Highroller Lobster
Time for one final post from Portland (and then we get back to talking about awesome stuff in other places). This last one is about the Highroller Lobster Co., a neat foodcart-turned-diner with a decidedly different atmosphere. It was a great way for us to cap off our visit 🙂 . So, what made this…
Delightful, Delightful Dobra Tea
Ah, tea. A drink as old as civilization, and always a wonderfully refined way to relax. Not all tea shops are built equal, however. Dobra Tea in Portland, Maine, stands head and shoulders above just about every other tea place we’ve visited. And all we had to do was drive five hours from home to…
From Point A 2 Point B 