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Rome may be Italy’s biggest city, but it contains the smallest-city state in the world. Though tiny in size, Vatican City is the seat of the Roman Catholic religion and home to the pope, the renown St. Peter’s Basilica, and the spectacular Sistine Chapel. During round one of our tourist games in Rome, Simon and […]Read Post ›
All roads lead to Rome, especially when it’s away we roam. As the capital city of Italy, Rome is the seat of government and the crown jewel of historic sites that attract tourists in droves year after year. From centuries-old colossal monuments to the home of the Roman Catholic church, one cannot overlook Rome’s ancient […]Read Post ›
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that means you’re in Naples, Italy. Naples is Italy’s third largest city, and besides being known as the birthplace of pizza, it also has a not-so-nice reputation as being a place for organized crime. But aside from a shady taxi driver who charged us […]Read Post ›
Just as one sun set on our joyriding adventures in Santorini, another one rose to a new day in Athens. Athens, brimming with history as one of the oldest cities in the world, offered a striking contrast to our experience in Santorini. Gone were the whitewashed blue domed buildings and ritzy shops to be replaced […]Read Post ›
Just as one does not explore Santorini without a set of four wheels, neither does one depart from such paradise without witnessing their famous sunset. Santorini conjures up images of cliff perched towns, tiered along the rugged volcanic landscape that cascade down to the cerulean Agean Sea. After a day of touring black sand beaches, […]Read Post ›
What do two flights, an eight-hour layover in the Middle East, and a 2000 passenger vessel have in common? After 48 hours of uncomfortable sleeping positions in planes, an airport lounge, and a ship, we left Asia far behind us to embark on a new chapter of Away We Roam. We had arrived at the […]Read Post ›
It was barely 6 A.M., but Simon and I were wide awake. Thanks to Vutha, our experienced tuk-tuk driver, we had beat out the crowds by waking up at this ungodly hour. A man of few words but with an endless kind smile, Vutha dropped us off in front of a thicket of trees and […]Read Post ›
Ramshackle buildings, skinny kids with sooty knees, and shacks serving as corner stores selling dusty home wares. Simon and I had arrived in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Home to the iconic temple of Angkor Wat, Siem Reap is every backpacker’s dream in Southeast Asia. Ancient temples covered in a tangle of tree roots, intricate reliefs of […]Read Post ›
Very seldom do Simon and I indulge in beach bumming. Neither of us like to tan for fun and we aren’t very good swimmers. The thought of laying out on the sand doing absolutely nothing seems mind numbingly boring and uneventful. Despite all these reasons, we found ourselves headed to Phuket, Thailand’s beachy party destination […]Read Post ›
After spending the last two days cooking up our own Thai dishes and training elephants, Simon and I looked forward to enjoying a day of relaxation with nothing on the agenda except to roam around and get lost. Chiang Mai, the northern capital city of Thailand, is everything that Bangkok is not. Whereas the southern […]Read Post ›
