Leaving our beautiful digs in El Calafate, we headed back to the airport to our next destination - Puerto Madryn. Flying into Trelew, we grabbed a shuttle to Puerto Madryn about an hour away. Staying at a hostel this time, we had no real expectations and it ended up being pretty good. Despite the crazy amount of noise at night, mostly from a nearby nightclub and cars that were unnecessarily drag racing literally all night, the hostel was great. One of the best features was that we had access to a nice giant shared kitchen to use. We were excited to go to the grocery store to gather our ingredients and cook every night - something that would be a chore at home! There wasn't a whole lot to do in town other than walk around ... read more

Barry-low-chay, not Bar-low-sh, was the perfect destination for the Valentine’s weekend portion of our pre-wedding honeymoon. I’m not sure if I mentioned that this trip is serving as our honeymoon trip even though our wedding is not until August. The weekend started out a little rough when our flight from Salta was delayed making our connection in Buenos Aires next to impossible to catch, I thought for sure we would be stuck making a back-up plan. Our plane landed in Buenos Aires at the exact time our connecting flight was supposed to take off, we were whisked off the plane onto a bus that took us right to the stairs of our next plane, our boarding passes ripped by an attendant upon the bus as Binnson asked whether our bags were going to make it – ... read more

Before I tell you how awesome the Iguazu falls are, because they were, I will tell you about our journey to get to them. There was an insane thunderstorm our last night in Buenos Aires and it had not let up by morning time. We checked out of our hotel and the man at the front desk hailed a cab for us and told him where to go. Little did we know, we were entering the cab of the man who quite possibly invented “crazy taxi”. Honking at every car in sight, passing on the wrong side of the road, squishing in between cars to make an extra lane, hitting the mini lakes formed by all the rain with great speed, and best of all – literally covering his eyes with his arm while laughing maniacally ... read more

Last year we made a last minute decision to head to Antwerp for chocolate and waffles as our last stop of our trip, so when we were trying to decide what would be the last stop on this trip we chose to hit up Belgium again! We were a little surprised when we left the Nord station that we had to walk through a red light district and past a couple of abandoned boarded-up buildings but our hotel in the area was still okay. Even though we were leaving back to Canada in only a couple of days, we still needed to find the Laundromat in this hood to have enough clothes to last us until our flights. After getting a few things washed up we headed on a walking tour that our hotel staff had ... read more

We arrived in Toulouse in the afternoon and caught the shuttle into the city center which dropped us off at a station about a 5 minute walk away from our hotel. There were a ton of people out at the street cafes and bars on the Friday and the whole inner city had a really nice laid back vibe. Right away, from airport to check in, we noticed how everyone is super friendly and helpful here. After checking in, we walked down to the main train station to book our train out in a couple of days. We originally had planned on staying in Toulouse for two nights and then taking a morning train to Luxembourg but after some group efforts by the SNCF counter, we discovered that this would not be possible. Something about Sunday ... read more