We finally embarked on our own adventure into Barga the other day, but we're going to do things a little backwards here and show you our walk home first. Enjoy this little bit. ...
The sunshine was a surpise today, so Nick took us into Barga to enjoy the nice weather. The village is a series of steep inclines, lopsided cobble stone streets, and narrow passagways that are categorized as alleys back home but served as both a sidewalk and a road. No really, sometimes cars came through and you would squeeze up against a wall for...
We've been heavy on the writing, so enjoy these pictures! ...
It's been raining every day here in Barga at our first host stay, so here's a sorry in advance that this post is going to be light on the pictures. We arrived here on Friday and are staying with our host Nick for the next two weeks. The little village of Barga is nestled in the mountains and Nick's house is just a...
Aaaaaaaand..... TIME! We spent the night in Florence a few days back because our first host couldn't pick us up until the weekend. So in the morning we took a mad dash around the city before we had to hop on the train. We were tired and I was grumpy by the end but at least the pictures turned out nice. With love, ...
Good morning Alps! Probably the only bonus of our red-eye was waking up to this view in the morning. Nothing like the sun rising over the Alps for a wake up call. Waking up only in the sense that we opened the window for the first time and found out it was morning. There wasn't techincally any sleeping prior to this discovery. The...
It's been an up and down day* You know those days where you find a dollar on the floor and then it's covered in something sticky? Or you buy your favorite meal and then drop it on the way to your table. Today is that kind of day. Interestingly enough, it always seems to happen at airports. We're currently waiting for our flight...
As we mentioned in our last post, we've been spending our last month split between South Dakota and Minnesota in our respective hometowns. It's definitely been a whirlwind of friends, family and "I thought you were overseas already!" South Dakota was packed with fun events. Zach's mom and his friend Rob threw Zach a surprise birthday party. We took a brief trip up...
