Pictures from Travel-Stained Life
We are a Midwestern-American couple who decided to take a chance at a life less ordinary and travel round the world for a bit. We quit our jobs, bid farewell to our homeland, and are on a journey to meet new people and see extraordinary things. Welcome to our page!Things we learned: Currency: Lita (2.8 Lita=$1 USD) Places Visited: Vilnius, Klaipeda, Nida, Trakai Lithuanian trains get the reward for cleanest bathrooms ever. Trains are very organized with seats and carriages assigned. Like most of Eastern Europe, Lithuanian food is very unhealthy, greasy, and buttery, but delicious. Check out Trakai castle for a nice day [...]
We are Americans, and like a good chunk of our countrymen we know almost nothing about world football. Deenaree and I can watch, but we very rarely do and have only fleeting knowledge of the various club systems through international news and people we have met along the way. This was all destined to change…sort [...]
Things we learned: Currency: Złoty(3.3 złoty=$1 USD) Places Visited: Lublin, Warsaw, Kraków, Oświęcim, Biecz, Jasło, Krosno If you notice the platform is full of people waiting to get on the train, make sure you are the first to jump on as this is the only way to guarantee a seat. Bus/Metro/Tram tickets are purchased at [...]
One of the reasons we were excited to spend time in Poland was for its food, of course! We are foodies to the core and Polish food has a special place in our hearts (or stomachs) due to Ben’s ancestry. His childhood is full of excursions to a Polish buffet restaurant in Chicago of which [...]
One of our curiosities in coming to Poland was my ancestry. My great-grandparents (mother’s mother) both immigrated to Chicago from Poland met each other there and married. Sadly, much of our link to the past is now gone. My grandmother and her siblings have all passed away with the exception of one sister. Unfortunately, stricken [...]