Moving Back to Kyiv. Again.
I know they say be careful what you wish for, but it wasn’t like I wished to be back here. I just made a joke, that’s all. It wasn’t even a particularly good one. About a year…
Kyiv Cocktail Delivery in 2020
I miss going out for a drink. I miss watching cocktails get made and pretending like I know anything at all about drinks. I miss my bartenders. With the COVID quarantine, bars in Kyiv have been shut…
Three Days in Gdansk, Poland
Of all the cities on our Polish road trip, Gdansk is the one that I squirreled away the most time for, taking advantage of the fact that I was planning this trip and my family was not.…
Kyiv Expat Life: March 2020 Round Up
March came at us fast – and not easily. At the beginning of the month, I felt like I was finally getting back into the swing of things, emerging from Ukrainian winter hibernation, exploring the city on…
Best Cocktail Bars in Russia: Trans Siberian Edition
Hello, your girl did not go all the way across on the Trans Siberian and not try every single cocktail bar she could edge her way into. Cultural and natural sights were dutifully attended to during the…
Kyiv Expat Life: February 2020 Round Up
Just by looking at this blog, someone could assume my life only involves epic train trips, road tripping through Eastern Europe, and an exorbitant number of cocktails. However, only one of those things is true. As my…
The 6th Annual Butler Family Las Vegas Donut Hike
My, how we’ve grown. I don’t just mean in scope, as in its sixth year the Butler Family Donut Hike moves to a new city and its third state, trying to find the best Las Vegas donuts.…
26 Things to Do in Łódź
It was only after I booked my weekend in Łódź that I realized what a raging debate surrounds this Polish city. While some have hailed it as a success story, a failing industrial town revitalized into a…
One Day in Torun, Poland
While it may not get hyped up like tourist hotspots Krakow and Warsaw, Torun is famous for several things — gingerbread, Copernicus, and its stunning architecture, to name a few. With its inclusion on both the UNESCO…
Practical Trans Siberian Tips
I had never dreamed of this trip, wasn’t even considering it when I first moved to Moscow, but a few months in the seeds had been planted — sliding through Russia on the Trans Siberian train, one…
