Our Favorite Things to do in Prague...and Looking into Indonesia

Our 8 Favorite Things to do in Prague, Czech Republic

We're asked a lot about our favorite cities, and Prague is certainly right up there!

There's a fairy tale-like quality to the city and, like all fairy tales worth their salt, there are myths, legends, and a good dose of creepy stuff to be found... CONTINUE READING >>

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How to Help the People of Ecuador

Our hearts are breaking for the people of Ecuador. 

We felt the need to help - and want to share with you what we found in our search of ways to help in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake.

If you would like to join us, here are five suggestions...

Looking into Indonesia

Whenever we check an item off of our bucket list, it seems we find two more to replace it. 

Without fail someone opens our eyes to another destination that we must add to our ever growing roster of places we want to visit.

Of course we had a passing familiarity with the island nation of Indonesia. We knew about its tropical jungles and beaches, but... CONTINUE READING >>

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How Street Performers Enhance Travel: A Look at our All-time Favorites

We LOVE street performers! 

Much in the same way that the food of a region can tell a story, we often learn about the culture of destinations we have visited through the art of the busker.

Join us on a journey through the world, through the very talented "man on the street"... CONTINUE READING >>

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Paris to Prague... and Jousting with Middle Age

It's a living fairy tale - we're still happily river cruisin' through France, Luxembourg, Germany, and the Czech Republic!

Don't miss a single fabulous moment - and

Join us LIVE for every step of the way!..... CONTINUE READING >>

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What is middle aged? I suppose we are implying the middle of our lifespan. So let's say eighty years. That makes forty, give or take a few years, middle aged. Ninety is certainly a possibility, so, forty-five. Some of us might even live to be 100, so I can even go as high as fifty.

After that it gets a little curious. Fifty-five? Well, people have lived to 110, so let's call the late fifties the absolute top side of middle age.

 If someone sixty-plus is going around claiming to be middle aged, basically they are declaring... CONTINUE READING >>

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Dispatch One: River Cruising Cities of Light, A Live-Blog

We're excited to bring you along LIVE as we explore the cities of light along the Rhine, Moselle and Main Rivers!

We'll be cruisin' through France, Luxembourg, Germany, and the Czech Republic starting in Paris and steaming toward Prague.

Join us for every step of the way!.. CONTINUE READING >>

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Food for Thought: How Food Enhances Travel

An old adage says that you don't really know someone until you walk a mile in their shoes. We believe it is just as true that you don't really know a place until you eat a plate of its food.

There is so much more to visiting a destination than seeing the sights. We try to immerse... CONTINUE READING >> 

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The Benefits of Seeing Europe By Car

Renting a car and taking off across a foreign land can be daunting even to the most seasoned of travelers.

 But, there are a number of big advantages to renting a car to visit Europe as opposed to other modes of travel. Driving is often the best way to see some of Europe's most famous sites. How else could we have traced the route of the Monaco Gran Prix, or motored over magnificent mountain passes in The Swiss... CONTINUE READING >> 

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Six Places That Will Scare the Snot Out of You

A church decorated with bones, a turn-of-the-century torture chamber, ghost lights in the-middle-of-nowhere Texas, a Voodoo Queen's grave and a REALLY haunted hotel are among the scariest things we've seen out on the road. Click in if you dare... CONTINUE READING >>

Our Quaint Bohemian Village

Klatovy, Czech Republic, a quaint Bohemian village, was just what we were looking for after the hustle and bustle of Prague.


We found a rare Baroque Pharmacy (with leeches!), ate fried pork neck, saw a weirdly adult looking "baby Jesus" and were introduced to Sgraffiti, an amazing way of decorating buildings... CONTINUE READING >>

Czeching Our Tires! Driving in the Czech Republic - A GypsyNester Guide

Driving in a foreign land can be challenging, but we have found that it affords us with opportunities to discover out-of- the-way gems we would never see from trains, planes or tour buses. It is only by car that we can truly stumble upon things GypsyNester-style. The superhighways in Europe... CONTINUE READING >>

Czech Please! Eating in the Czech Republic - A GypsyNester Guide

A big part of Veronica's desire to see "The Motherland" was to find the origins of her childhood dinners. Generations of her Bohemian ancestors had passed down dishes and now we could experience the originals, almost all of which include dumplings.


Dumplings are the undisputed heavyweight champions of Czech food and we found them answering the bell on almost every plate. Big city or small town, fancy restaurant or local dive, it made no difference, dumplings were our... CONTINUE READING >>

Bohemian Wrap-sody

A fairytale day in Prague - join your GypsyNesters as we visit a castle, wake up in a Fine Communist Hotel, visit a king from a Christmas Carol, ponder the Dark Ages, watch soldiers change their guard and, best of all, never spend a koruna (except on traditional street food and a subway ride). Edibles spinning over an open fire was cooking method of... CONTINUE READING >>

The Supernatural Power of the Charles Bridge

The Charles Bridge is extraordinary - for the history and the supernatural, which are entirely intertwined. We couldn't wait to make a wish by rubbing the well-worn brass depiction of the ill-fated St. John - he was thrown to his untimely death on this bridge... CONTINUE READING >>

The Kick Astronomical Clock of Prague

Each hour a huge crowd gathers to watch this clock trot out its lively cast of characters - including Death, Avarice and Vanity... CONTINUE READING >>

Czech Out Kutná Hora!

Drawn to this part of the Czech Republic - like a prepubescent girl to a Justin Bieber concert - by the legend of a church filled with decorative bones, we were served up an unexpected treat when we stayed in the nearby town of Kutná Hora.

In a bygone era, Kutná Hora rivaled Prague as the main city of Bohemia, the traditional name for the western half of Czech, and several kings... CONTINUE READING >>

The Macabre Human Bone Church of Sedlec, Czech Republic

It would be impossible for anyone to expect what we found in the little town of Sedlec. An ancient chapel that came with a very disturbing secret. It had been used as an ossuary, or mass burial site. Strange, yet not completely out of the ordinary. But inside the walls of this seemingly peaceful little church is an art form so ghastly, it must be seen to be believed.

The creepy centerpiece of this macabre masterpiece, a massive chandelier containing at least one of every bone in the human body. It's hard to say how long we stood staring, time seemed to come to a grinding halt insidethe tomb.

What would make someone conceive of such a grizzly... CONTINUE READING >>