November 10, 2015
Five short minutes from the Stephanplatz U-Bahn (subway) stop hides Vienna’s Hotel Pension Lumes on a quaint side street. I arrived in Vienna utterly exhausted from three fully packed days in Budapest. Clouds rested over the city and the cooler temperature invited me to exchange my sundresses and shorts for jeans and a big sweater for the […]
September 28, 2015
From the beginning of July 2015 to the end of August, I spent nearly seven weeks in Europe. My first four and a half weeks were enjoyed in An Cheathrú Rua, a tiny seaside Gaeltacht in County Galway, Ireland. After studying the Irish language for a year, yes there is actually a native Irish language, I received […]