https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog daily 0.75 2025-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/1efeb31e-9831-4876-8fed-0f8f19b16190/DSC04166_Crop.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/beace261-3636-4c6d-a778-fa290b1371e3/0507212217.jpg https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/best-kit-kat-flavors-in-japan monthly 0.5 2025-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/ef8a477c-aaea-4c38-a151-02f04b8ad0a7/4+-+20241114_Purple+Sweet+Potato.jpg BLOG - The Best KitKat Flavors In Japan - Now I’m getting serious! Chandni and I were first introduced to sweet potato KitKats in early 2020 when a friend returned with them from Japan. We did a blind taste testing and never got close to guessing this flavor even with hints. I ended up liking it so much that I actually began eating more sweet potatoes after trying this bar. Ironically, this doesn’t taste like sweet potato at all! It tastes like an attempt at sweet potato frosting that came out just a bit too sweet in a good way. The Japanese don’t enjoy overly forward flavors so this is a very accessible sweet that’s also very smooth. It finishes like a sweet cream that tries to convince you to have another right away. It will probably succeed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/dfd634bf-b50a-4055-8db7-08858b3c169c/1+-+20241122_Chocolate+Strawberry+Cake.jpg BLOG - The Best KitKat Flavors In Japan - We weren’t excited about this bar. A back alley drug store in Fukuoka is the only place we found it which made us wonder if people liked it. Turns out the chocolate strawberry cake KitKat is so good that it’s totally unfair to other KitKats! This bar oozes decadence from start to finish. It smells like a bakery, tastes like their best dark chocolate cake, then knocks you out when a strawberry kiss kicks in at the end. Lemon perfects a single flavor, but this bar takes two fan favorites and maxes out their potential. Layering flavors for discovery like that is a trademark of Japanese cuisine but not one you expect from a candy bar. Chocolate strawberry cake is a beauty of a bar and the best Japanese KitKat flavor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/56927279-6bbb-45e2-beab-19206664ade8/6+-+20241024_Apple+Pie.jpg BLOG - The Best KitKat Flavors In Japan - This is the quintessential fall KitKat. Does it taste like apple pie? Sure, close enough. It’s more of a baked apple taste with brown sugar added that comes across as the gooey filling of an apple pie at room temperature. Apple pie is a tough flavor to imitate, especially for a KitKat. The challenge is replicating the buttery crunchy crust of the pie. For a KitKat to do that it would need the wafer to take on that role which it doesn’t do in this case. If it did then this bar would be next level, but instead it’s a strong mid range KitKat that got it mostly right. Americans will love it as it does a good job representing a taste of home. I’d buy it again but you can bet this is a seasonal bar you won’t find during summer. Check that expiration date if you do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/c4a58271-fbb3-493b-b305-a945e8e51a40/2+-+20241114_Tokyo+Shima+Lemon.jpg BLOG - The Best KitKat Flavors In Japan - This might be the best lemon flavored anything I have ever tried, but at the very least it’s the best lemon candy I’ve ever tried. If you were already a lemon fan then this will likely be your favorite bar. If you weren’t then welcome to the club because this KitKat is going to convert you! Lemon is a frustratingly hard flavor to get right because every extra drop added to a mix is noticeable. How they managed to get a lemon flavor this strong in such a balance is nothing short of culinary wizardry. This bar isn’t amazing because of a complex flavor fusion or because a new ingredient gave you a new addiction. It’s amazing because it takes something you very well may love already and uses it to absolutely blow your mind anyway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/4f2e2a82-3d84-4b8a-9485-34a7d98bc957/A7408128.jpg BLOG - The Best KitKat Flavors In Japan - Don Quixote is a store you visit once in every major city just to experience. Think of it as the offspring of Party City and a Japanese hoarder that’s a garage sale of costumes, cosmetics, liquor, anime, and snacks that KitKats manage to survive in. There is usually a massive wall of KitKats in the back of the store, and tubs of them near the entrance hoping to escape from the controlled chaos. Sometimes drug stores carry fun flavors. They tend to have the basic bars like original, basic strawberry, dark, and in Japan, orange, and matcha. Fun flavors are rarely stocked but buy them in drug stores if you find them because they’ll be cheaper there than at Don Quixote. Just don’t get your hopes up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/46479cd9-d664-4a6e-8c4b-498c78aed61a/5+-+20241019_Peach+Box.jpg BLOG - The Best KitKat Flavors In Japan - If you said peach was your favorite flavor of KitKat then I’d kindly disagree but completely respect your opinion. This bar does everything it tells you it’s going to do and then ramps it up a notch! The moment you open the packaging you inhale a peach orchard that takes root in you. The smoothest of peach flavors starts as a wonderful aroma, builds strength as you eat it, and lingers as an addicting aftertaste. After having one bar we turned around and bought another box. This bar elevated the smell, flavor, and aftertaste of fresh peaches way beyond what was expected. A few KitKat’s did two of those really well in their own right, but peach is the first flavor that achieved all three. It’s a great KitKat that I wish we found in a box holding more than 3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/efba7bf2-ada0-44db-85d7-5fa3e4cc9ea1/8+-+20241019_Melon.jpg BLOG - The Best KitKat Flavors In Japan - Melon is the first bar we opened that had a fun citrus scent. That made it more interesting than all the bars in the number 9 ranking but that was also its peak. This KitKat tastes okay. The flavor comes across as a test batch trial that they settled on without being happy about. That impression could be due to there not being many cantaloupe flavored things in the world to compare it to. True to the packaging, this somehow tastes like a shade of cantaloupe which I’ve never experienced outside the real fruit. It’s not a flavor I recommend unless you really like cantaloupe - Japan simply makes better KitKats so put your money towards those other bars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/0efb7eed-256b-4c02-ade0-5ccfcd71d0fb/11+-+20241123_Ume+Sake.jpg BLOG - The Best KitKat Flavors In Japan - Many first-time drinkers get to experience their first sip of alcohol as a cold cheap beer that tastes like flavored water and regret. If you missed out on that life experience, fear not, for you can live it now by tasting an ume sake KitKat! It’s a bad bar. If an ume sake KitKat is your first taste of a Japanese KitKat then you’ll think you don’t like sake. Or KitKats. I’ll give them credit for having a really nice scent but that’s where compliments end. The taste isn’t flattering starting out, going down, or as an aftertaste. The alcohol tastes like a fake additive leaving a spiked white chocolate aftertaste. Other sake KitKats exist that I’d try but after this bar I sadly don’t expect much. Thankfully, this is the only bad Japanese KitKat we tried. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/b1aaa555-bf35-423a-938f-114ded771d8d/9+-+20241025_Strawberry+Cheesecake.jpg BLOG - The Best KitKat Flavors In Japan - You know that feeling when someone argues a point so vague that you say, “I guess so” but you really don’t understand? That’s how it feels being told by Nestle that this KitKat is supposed to taste like strawberry cheesecake. This bar tastes neither like strawberry nor cheesecake. Instead, it managed to find a confused taste between the two. It embraces a white chocolate base like the ume sake bar, but unlike that one this isn’t a mess of a flavor. It’s just a weird tasting white chocolate that’s trying to be smooth, but much like middle school me, is not. Overall it’s a nice idea for a bar that falls flat thanks to not having an interesting smell, taste, or memory tied to it. Try it if you want to check a new flavor off the list, but ideally someone gives you one for free. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/be01b1a1-088f-4551-8bc7-3f638bfc7aa5/10+-+20241019_Strawberry+Chocolate.jpg BLOG - The Best KitKat Flavors In Japan - This is where the “standard” KitKat flavors fall such as original, strawberry, matcha, and orange. A notable exception is the dark chocolate KitKat (a much better bar) which could claim the #6 rank. However, those bars are readily available in the US so we didn’t buy them in Japan. That puts this strawberry chocolate bar in line with those as a basic bar from abroad. By Japanese standards this is a boring KitKat. It’s an ole reliable with two flavors you know work well together before biting. It doesn’t elevate either and sort of throws them together in a “good enough” way. That doesn’t make it bad - it makes it predictable. It’s a good bar to buy if you don’t trust more the “exotic” flavors you’ll find or if you aren’t an adventurous eater. In which case I’m not calling you boring, just safe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/c7dbb1a2-bc53-4017-ac15-70cc8ebc098a/7+-+20241031_Banana.jpg BLOG - The Best KitKat Flavors In Japan - Banana is a polarizing flavor because it overpowers everything you put it in. That doesn’t happen here. This bar manages to find a nice balance between banana and chocolate even though you’ll still be skeptical right up until you bite in. If you’ve ever had a a chocolate covered banana and a peanut butter banana sandwich then this bar will taste like a familiar average of the two. It starts out as a chocolate forward banana but melts into a thick banana flavor overload which isn’t for everyone (especially not Chandni). That could also explain why is comes standard in a box of 6 instead of 7. It just a very in your face KitKat that will be a hit or miss depending on your preference. These appear to only be available in duty free shops within airports and in major cities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/48471cb1-0064-434c-b5e2-7debd452dc0e/3+-+20241024_Sakura+and+Roasted+Soybean.jpg BLOG - The Best KitKat Flavors In Japan - I said I was getting serious in number 5. Now I am serious. The sakura and roasted soybean KitKat could be my favorite KitKat on any given day. It is by far the smoothest bar and a completely new flavor that we loved. I have never tried roasted soy bean but if it always tastes like a sweet autumn memory then I will never turn it down. This is the bar I think of when I think of a Japanese KitKat thanks to the subtle but tremendously important sakura notes and the smoothness of its texture. It’s fantastic on its own but I can even see it being enjoyed with tea. While peach certainly achieved a wonderful smell, delicate flavor, and great aftertaste, the sakura and roasted soybean KitKat overachieved all three. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/hotel-reservation-tips-how-to-check-guest-reviews monthly 0.5 2024-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/8b9c928e-cf80-4470-84b4-c0cc36d25ef3/Bed+Bugs%21.png BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 4: How To Check Guest Reviews On Google Maps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/8173ae09-02a4-4e30-a286-f424fcfa74ac/Bad+Internet.png BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 4: How To Check Guest Reviews On Google Maps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/1d663bfa-ae18-4e49-8c8d-0d0491212b4d/Loud+Versus+Noise.png BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 4: How To Check Guest Reviews On Google Maps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/0b1ad77f-49c8-4479-b76b-ce72636867c2/Similar+Different+Words.png BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 4: How To Check Guest Reviews On Google Maps - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/72e8c1ba-ffa2-4fac-b31e-21e5691cf240/Search+Function.png BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 4: How To Check Guest Reviews On Google Maps - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/hotel-reservation-tips-book-more-rooms-for-less-5z6wt monthly 0.5 2024-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/5e4106b5-bb04-458a-a4c7-6833bf3f2c5c/0+-+Priceline+Cancellation+Lazy.png BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 3: Money Back On Non-Refundable Rooms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/a6fdd8d6-68c2-4e42-af39-d3dc4e20e8d1/0+-+Expedia+Policy+Page.png BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 3: Money Back On Non-Refundable Rooms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/d308c183-b22e-409d-9890-f08a9e23581b/0+-+Booking+Refund+Declined.png BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 3: Money Back On Non-Refundable Rooms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/11bc5016-13e8-4bf9-b5e1-52f9d4d84db0/0+-+Agoda+Refund+Request.png BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 3: Money Back On Non-Refundable Rooms https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/hotel-reservation-tips-book-more-rooms-for-less monthly 0.5 2025-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/9efe1a92-72c5-4326-9bc3-c3a7955d519d/1+-+Hotel+Screenshot+Solo+Night.png BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 2: Booking More Rooms For Less Money - A single extra night became $75 which is half the price of adding a night to my original stay. I cut my cost in half without needing to move hotels, move rooms within the hotel, or pay a higher rate than my existing cost per night. Again, hotels always combine your reservations if you have consecutive reservations in the same type of room. You can also book a new night for the same hotel on a different reservation platform. That shouldn’t matter so long as you reserve the same kind of room. Use this to your advantage to piece together a reservation from cheaper nights instead of a single more lengthy stay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/c9287c16-7e73-4d59-b551-5c6e53e31a57/3+-+Hotel+1+and+3+Nights+Combined.png BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 2: Booking More Rooms For Less Money - On the left side is a reservation for my first night and on the right side is one for my three weekend nights. The single night cost $72 while the three weekend nights totaled $232 after fees. Both new reservations are way less than the expected $90 per night based on what Expedia first reported. By making two separate reservations I took my four night total down from $391 to $304. Be sure you book the same room type when you do this - in my case, a Business City Double. If it’s not the same you’ll have to change rooms within the hotel during your stay. Booking the same room type lets the hotel combine your reservations into one. Hotels will always let you stay in the same room if it’s the same type on all reservations no matter how many nights you’re visiting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/78d752f4-1672-4a4b-bc28-4000d9b636ae/3+-+Hotel+4+of+4+Nights.png BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 2: Booking More Rooms For Less Money - In other words, that’s two different reservations for the exact same room on four or more consecutive nights to get a cheaper total cost. The most important thing is that the two (or more) reservations must be in the same type of room. I book hotels regularly using this technique, but why does this work? A common travel assumption is that the total cost of a hotel reservation is the sum of each individual night. That’s mostly true. However, each reservation platform “thinks” differently. I take advantage of these differences in thoughts to save money on my hotel reservations. For example, Agoda tends to add up the cost of each night for your total. If night one costs $100 and night two costs $50, Agoda reports a nightly cost of $75 when you search for a room over those two nights. Expedia might not. If night one costs $100 and night two costs $50, Expedia may show you a nightly rate of $75, or maybe $80, or even $85! For some reason Expedia occasionally reports a total cost that’s not the same as if you had booked nights independently or, as I recommended in the last paragraph, in smaller groups. Let’s look at a recent Expedia reservation of mine. On the right is a hotel reservation for four nights that I found on Expedia. One of my four nights was a weeknight while the other three covered an entire peak weekend. I loved the hotel’s location but was not okay with that price. Based on the price you should incorrectly assume a nightly rate near $90 with the remainder being fees. However, because I knew how Expedia “thought”, I knew to look into splitting my single reservation into smaller pieces. It made the most sense to isolate weekend prices by checking costs for a single weeknight and a three night weekend reservation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/b469c3d4-7417-4455-b888-9901628d3861/1+-+Hotel+Screenshot+Add+Night.png BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 2: Booking More Rooms For Less Money - A screenshot of my confirmation page is on the left. My reservation was made on Agoda because they regularly have the cheapest hotel rates across East Asia. While they have great rates, they’re also the Ryanair of their industry because they find fun ways to get your money. Changing a reservation is one of them. My original cost was just under $80 per night after fees, yet I was being charged $145 for a single new night! A gut reaction is to move hotels for that night, but a better first check is to look at booking a new reservation on the same room type at the same hotel. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/hotel-reservation-tips-refundable-rooms monthly 0.5 2024-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/db3865dc-44de-4d10-8527-eca47cd0df5a/0+-+Hotel+Screenshot+Refundable.png BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 1: Refundable And Non-Refundable Rooms - The cheapest non-refundable version of the room is $205 after fees, while the refundable version is $194. That’s like an extra two tacos these days accounting for inflation! A few dollars extra per day isn’t much, but a few dollars extra per day over a year makes an huge difference to finances. This isn’t a sneaky “gotcha” limited to Expedia. Some reservation platforms like Agoda use similar techniques to disguise cheaper fully refundable rooms. They withhold the total price after fees until the final booking confirmation screen which is a full web page after room selection. Lesson: Be thorough when checking prices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/4ccc9325-3496-4f1c-b3fd-ab4c6e5b1cae/0+-+Hotel+Screenshot+Non+Refundable.png BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 1: Refundable And Non-Refundable Rooms - Because you can’t see all room options at once nor compare them, there’s a chance you’ll miss a refundable room being cheaper than a non-refundable one simply because you didn’t scroll just a bit further down. Expedia shows two double bedrooms on the right clearly marked as non-refundable in red. However, they listed them first in the room options section next to the dorm beds. Most people would assume these are the cheapest option because what could possibly be cheaper than non-refundable rooms and dorms? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/b8c10ba9-39b4-463f-9dc8-b4b7b3ef84c4/20240829_021614.jpg BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 1: Refundable And Non-Refundable Rooms - If a hotel offers a windowless room then I’m probably picking that room. It’s always non-refundable, but it’s also always cheaper. This windowless room is where we slept every night on our first week in Taiwan. Most people are surprised to know that we love staying in them! There are tons of benefits apart from the lower cost. An early sunrise or street lights will never wake you up, and I’ve never heard cars, bars, or loud people on the street while sleeping in a windowless room. They always a more restful experience for travel, and like I said, it’s always cheaper. It’s worth your wallet and rest to save 5%-10% on the room by foregoing a window if you’re okay with a non-refundable room. Most travelers spend very little time in the room anyway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/11842a82-2d56-46e0-af4b-ee96a8ec1515/A7404266.jpg BLOG - The Best Ways To Book Hotels, Part 1: Refundable And Non-Refundable Rooms - It lowers our ability to adjust our schedule but it also provides cheaper rates. I prefer reserving refundable rooms when I book far ahead not because I’m unsure we’ll go, but because I want the possibility to find cheaper rates later. To be clear, cheaper rates don’t often appear later, but it makes a world of difference when they do! A prime example is our visit to Japan during the 2024 fall color season. Kyoto is one of the most popular travel destinations for viewing fall colors in Japan. Hotel prices are inflated, rooms are mostly non-refundable and points aren’t accepted at major chains like Hyatt. I booked a refundable room at a somewhat high price over two months in advance. I was unhappy with my choice, but I also knew there was a chance that fall colors may appear at a different time than originally forecast. Sure enough, the forecast was revised a couple of weeks later to report that fall colors would be two weeks later than past years. I canceled my fully refundable room, but instead of purchasing a new room I reserved a free stay at the local Hyatt using points! The Hyatt wasn’t accepting points during the peak color weeks, but a two week delay meant points were accepted on later dates. A $100 per night reservation became free nights at the Hyatt. Within a few days hotel prices had risen for the now more popular dates. Even if I wasn’t able to use points at the Hyatt I would have reserved a room at a better price than my original selection because I was early to the news. Checking prices often and keeping track of any news can get you better rates. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/best-foods-in-south-korea monthly 0.5 2025-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/96cb98db-8184-4167-9634-d20201a3c5af/20241012_Sikhye.jpg BLOG - The Best Korean Food - Sikhye is a sweet rice drink made by fermenting rice with malt. That might lead you to believe this is an alcoholic drink, but it’s actually not thanks to a negligible alcohol content. I was lucky enough to have it served both chilled and alone (delicious) and in a cocktail (delicious++) from one of the world’s 50 Best Bars named Zest. It’s a wonderful alternative if you’re not into tea or coffee as a beverage to end your meal. Sikyhe can also be found in drink sections of stores around Korea, but admittedly I never purchased this drink outside a restaurant or bar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/cadac0ab-db13-4291-8604-00338d7d7dd3/Artist+Bakery+bread BLOG - The Best Korean Food - The bread from Artist Bakery in Seoul is easily some of the best bread we’ve ever had! It very much looks like a croissant but lacks the layering and flaky textures. This bread is soft as a cloud making a plain one the perfect side roll to any meal. The real magic of the bread was in the versatility. The bakers create all sorts of fillings, sauces, and toppings making it perfect as a snack or as a side. The photo really doesn’t do it any flavor justice. Our favorites were the lemon bread (the best lemon bread we’ve ever had) and the butter garlic bread (as good as anything in Italy). Even the very heavy chocolate bread (filled with chocolate cream and topped with a chocolate shell) could act as a dessert to any meal. The bread was far more expensive than we expected, but it was worth every won. We never found a similar bread during our three weeks in Korea making Artist Bakery especially missed once we left Seoul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/d3ec991c-75fa-4de6-84c5-6d04be12e6e3/20241013_Bibimbap.jpg BLOG - The Best Korean Food - Bibimbap might be the best known Korean dish other than bulgogi. It’s a big bowl featuring veggies, a protein, and rice that’s meant to be mixed (bibimbap literally translates to “mixed rice”). Fresh meat and veggies benefit Bibimbap tremendously since you can’t hide cheaper ingredients and weaker flavors by pre-mixing. The bibimbap from 비비재 (Bibijae) in Busan shown on the right was by far the best, and as good as any Korean food we ate. This dish highlights a Korean chef’s creativity since no two bibimbaps are alike. You could travel Korea for weeks eating only bibimbap and not repeat flavors. However, that means you’ll get excellent versions and pretty regrettable ones, too. That said, the best bibimbap is as good as the best version of any other Korean dish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/6e495fac-b3ea-421a-ab12-a1f50bb0826f/20241001_Spicy+Pork.jpg BLOG - The Best Korean Food - Jeyuk bokkeum, or spicy pork bulgogi, is far and above my favorite meat dish in South Korea. It was one of my favorite Korean dishes going into South Korea, and remains one of my favorite going out! The brilliance is in the marinade of sugar, spice, and everything nice. Gochujang forms the base which is sweetened with sugar, balanced by soy sauce, and then added to extremely thin cuts of pork. The marinated pork is hit with a quick pan fry leaving caramelized burnt tips and savory centers on each strip. The side dishes, also known as banchan, are a standard addition to any bulgogi order and take an already delicious dish to the next level. I could seriously eat this dish for any meal, and it’s a favorite of mine to make at home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/7b861143-b20a-4f40-8aea-617cb5aa4e7e/20241012_NTC+Style+Pizza.jpg BLOG - The Best Korean Food - Chandni or I craved pizza about every couple of weeks while traveling South Korea. The major problem with that is the cheese being fairly rare and expensive in East Asia making pizza a mostly tomato bread with mediocre “cheese”. However, SOL Taproom in Busan found a way to create a pizza so satisfying that Chandni went back for it three times! SOL Taproom brews their own beer to mixed success, but fires their own New York style pies to major success. Every topping was slightly burnt in exactly the right caramelized way, and the crust was crispy in just the right amount. Add on their great red sauce in between all that goodness and you have a pizza that could stand proud anywhere. The killer ocean view from their fourth floor location and the fun playlist created were nice perks, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/56829359-f125-422f-93c6-1e2507367a85/20241008_171629.jpg BLOG - The Best Korean Food - If I saw a burger joint named Very Very Tasty Burger I’d snicker at the marketing simplicity and keep walking. That’s almost exactly what I did in the town of Gyeongju when I saw Very Very Tasty Burger (VVT), but instead of walking past, I went in and had the best burger I’ve had outside the United States! Remember how bulgogi isn’t in this blog post? The best beef I had in Korea was the burger patties served here. Seemingly owned and operated by one guy, VVT creates the most perfect balance of spicy, salty, and greasy into one essentially perfect burger. It was so good I went back the next day only to be blown away again by a different burger on their menu. Gyeongju is worth visiting simply to enjoy a meal at VVT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/ca517822-bb43-4c8d-a603-e9c2baa4898b/20241008_Mandu.jpg BLOG - The Best Korean Food - Mandu, better known as dumplings, are the great equalizer of street food and restaurants. Street dumplings are almost always as good as those in restaurants while always being cheaper. The best way to find the great street dumplings is by finding the largest crowd around a food stall. You can bet they’re waiting for dumplings. Dumplings are also incredibly versatile! They’re good fried, steamed, vegetarian, and sauces only make them even tastier. This makes them peak finger food. My favorite fried ones were from 대화만두 (Daewha Mandu) in Gyeongju shown on the right, and the best steamed ones were from 명동교자 본점 (Myeongdong Kyoja) in Seoul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/2d878062-bc75-4331-b4e5-b92777529136/20240928_KFC+Fried+Chicken.jpg BLOG - The Best Korean Food - Classic American fried chicken is already very good, but Korean fried chicken is next level. Popularized in the 1960s and ‘70s after the Korean War, Korean fried chicken has a coating thinner and far more crispy than most American coatings. You’ll smell it coming to your table and hear your bite before tasting anything - and that’s a very, very good thing. Kkanbu Chicken made the delicious dish shown on the left. Notice the lack of sauce smears or drips on the paper? The frying and plating is so much cleaner than anything found in the US. There is no better sauce for fried chicken than the world class gochujang spice. My favorite sauce remains a sweet and spicy gochujang battered chicken topped with garlic pieces added after the frying and basting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/3eb8a70a-fb6b-40ed-95e5-66d8dfc300c1/20241015_Kimchi.jpg BLOG - The Best Korean Food - You almost can’t have a complete Korean dish without kimchi. You may have even noticed it making an appearance in a few of my previous photos. Kimchi is a side dish of fermented vegetables, most commonly cabbage or radish, but also cucumber, green onion, and many other veggies. It’s not vegetarian (much to Chandni’s dismay) by default thanks to a regular addition of fish sauce and dried shrimp. However, historically kimchi was vegetarian thanks to the spread of Buddhism and the need for a vegetarian lifestyle. Be sure to check as you order. Dumplings are versatile, but kimchi is jack of all trades. We’ve enjoyed it mixed into soups, as a banchan with bulgogi, offered with bibimbap, or alone as an appetizer. There’s not a bad way to enjoy it when it’s prepared correctly. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/pay-in-dollars-or-in-local-currency monthly 0.5 2024-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/1730649181841-1CPMGVT00K6XNG9GWI6G/20241021_173638.jpg BLOG - Travel Finance: Pay In Local Currency - The photo on the right is that exact screen. This merchant was kind enough to disclose their mark up, but not every merchant does - most don’t. Your choice actually does lead to small but different total costs. Over a full trip those small costs add up to a significantly higher one if you choose to pay in dollars rather than the local currency! Paying in dollars almost always leads to paying slightly more. That’s because choosing to pay in USD lets the merchant decide the exchange rate. They regularly inflate rates in a practice known as dynamic currency conversion. You can avoid that practice by paying with the local currency because that gives your bank a chance to deal with the conversion and likely provide a better rate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/cc2f857b-2c39-4c07-a2a0-b8591493af2d/Exchange+Rates+Flight.png BLOG - Travel Finance: Pay In Local Currency - I chose to pay in yen instead of dollars on the final payment screen without thinking twice. The airline charged ¥20,220 for the flight and reported that as roughly $151.14 after commission. That commission is their dynamic currency conversion in action and exactly what you’re trying to avoid. Nobody should need to pay more for a flight because of choosing one currency over another. A 6.5% commission for them to perform a currency exchange is very expensive and a common practice if you let a merchant choose an exchange rate. If that percentage doesn’t seem like a lot then consider this: How much would you love a 6.5% raise…? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/b110475d-67e8-4c65-9be1-0aec63d4a10f/Exchange+Rates+Flight+USD.png BLOG - Travel Finance: Pay In Local Currency I ended up paying $141.89 for my Japanese domestic flight which is actually a savings just over 6.5%. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/travel-in-santiago monthly 0.5 2024-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/f523e1c0-a7c0-4bef-9be7-ebdf32cd4589/20240106_114227.jpg BLOG - Travel In Santiago, Chile - Argentina might be known for empanadas, but Chile was no slouch. They made all the empanadas I’ve ever had in the US taste forgettable thanks to the variety of doughs and fillings. Best part is that most empanadas are only a couple of bucks each, and many are vegetarian! All those empanadas had to be washed down with something. Chile is one of only two countries legally able to distill Pisco, so pisco sours became my beverage of choice as often as I could find it! I ended up ordering so many that Chandni got sick of them. I’m not an alcoholic, I’m just thirsty. Cocktails like the pisco sour don’t appeal to everyone but you’ll find many variations with fruits or other flavors not found in the states. It’s a very flexible cocktail that Santiago takes pride in creating. Much like their park system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/50997dcb-b398-47eb-87ca-354eafe408fa/20240104_161150.jpg BLOG - Travel In Santiago, Chile - You can find anything for sale on the streets of Santiago. Literally. It was rare to find a street without booths or blankets selling everything from kitchen appliances to hair care products. The second is the amount of car honking. Chileans communicate levels of frustration through their car’s horn (as do all South Americans as we’d later discover). The last major difference is the amount of street performers. Every major intersection with a red light had people who appeared to be auditioning for Ringling Bros. by dancing, juggling, or performing something. Seconds before the light turned green they’d stop performing and collect pesos from drivers and pedestrians alike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/e2ffa19a-4645-49ba-a96d-323c75ad0e93/A7405795.jpg BLOG - Travel In Santiago, Chile - Parque Metropolitano de Santiago is so popular that only authorized vehicles are allowed access meaning 95% of visitors will have to earn their way uphill to the major attractions. If willing and able, your uphill hike will be capped by the best views of Santiago at the Mirador Pablo Neruda! At sunset the view from the mirador (overlook) blows you away and is actually featured as the cover photo of this post. We went onto a lesser used trail and into some brush to capture this image and I’d go back again in a heartbeat. The walk back down is a night hike but it’s fully lit thanks to street lights throughout the park. At no point did we feel uneasy walking through Santiago by day or night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/23b83334-8749-47cc-a332-044326d69f1b/A7405744.jpg BLOG - Travel In Santiago, Chile - We must have visited half a dozen major parks during our city exploration thanks to how well Santiago mixed the urban and the natural. Our favorite was the Parque Metropolitano de Santiago which encompasses a huge Adean foot hill with views across Santiago in all directions. This is the largest urban park in South America and it also has many attractions within its borders like the Japanese Garden. The garden was such a well received addition that Japanese royalty even visited when it opened. Garden hours don’t allow for sunrise or sunset visitation, but the view is spectacular at any time of day. Just expect to deal with tons of pedestrian traffic over the narrow bridges. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/best-restaurants-in-san-antonio monthly 0.5 2025-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/1ff26086-af62-4f69-bd63-41419ed8c5fd/20240404_172349.jpg BLOG - Best Restaurants In San Antonio - When you are told to eat at Mi Tierra, you should… Disregard that list entirely and head to El Mirasol. I could write an essay objectively trashing Mi Tierra but I’ll say this: Mi Tierra is pure family fun. Their interior is a spectacle, and the fajitas sizzling to your table get you hyped. But then you have to eat them… San Antonio simply offers much better tasting Tex-Mex at waaaaay cheaper prices. Mirasol serves great elevated Tex-Mex cuisine from flautas to fajitas. Their enchiladas and sauces are as good as you’ll find anywhere. For a puro SA experience, try their chispa. The service is exceptional and free from mariachis asking for money before playing a song. This local twist on a margarita guarantees a good time that hopefully you’ll even remember! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/bef5fd80-6a15-4fca-96e7-c79c3e84e62a/230807+Best+Restaurants+SA+-+Tlahco.jpg BLOG - Best Restaurants In San Antonio - If Mixtli is suggested, instead you should… Eat at Tlahco Mexican Kitchen! Mixtli’s acclaimed rotating menus celebrates different states of Mexico every few months. It’s absolutely worth a visit, especially given their Michelin star. However, while the spirit of Mexican cuisine is in every dish, the spirit of local San Antonio is not. Tlahco showcases both so very well! At Tlahco you’ll find families enjoying weekend menudo, workers on lunch break grabbing al pastor tacos, someone discovering cochinita pibil for the first time, and you’ll likely hear more Spanish than English. The tacos are fantastic, but the beans are among San Antonio’s best. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/f57760f6-ef6f-4d06-b76c-0ad3cd6b10f3/230807+Best+Restaurants+SA+-+2M.jpg BLOG - Best Restaurants In San Antonio - When Rudy’s BBQ is suggested, you should… Savor meats at 2M Smokehouse! Rudy’s is popular for a reason: They make solid BBQ. If Rudy’s is your first taste of Texas BBQ you’ll be happy, but tasting 2M will blow you away! Praise from the New York Times, James Beard nomination, and a Michelin nod sets the expectation perfectly. The brisket is among the best in Texas, the Oaxacan serrano sausage may be the best sausage I’ve had anywhere, and the ribs are magic. The location is out of the way but worth your time and meat sweats to enjoy. Arrive by 10:15 on a Saturday morning to likely dodge a line. Never add BBQ sauce to their meats, but do try a dab on the side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/2d5036e4-eb1e-49e6-9cb2-778b291f225f/230807+Best+Restaurants+SA+-+Barbaro.jpg BLOG - Best Restaurants In San Antonio - If Dough Pizzeria Napoletana is suggested, you should… Try the pizza at Barbaro! Unless you can get to Italy. Dough is the most famous name in San Antonio pizza thanks to great ingredients and a fun vibe, but, well, Barbaro’s pizza simply tastes better. Their pizza menu is short but strong. Each choice from the classic margherita to the adventurous carbonara arrives perfectly charred and memorably savory. You’ll always find locals here splitting a pizza while on a date or out with friends. During the second happy hour after 10:00 pm you can snag cheese and pepperoni pizzas by the huge slice, or opt for a rotating chef’s choice slice instead! Go to bed full, Barbaro slices are worth it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/b5047644-929d-491d-8a6e-ee3e4a14aa13/230807+Best+Restaurants+SA+-+Esquire.jpg BLOG - Best Restaurants In San Antonio - If you’re recommended a restaurant on the River Walk, you should… Try it because you’ll have fun on the river! Fun aside, River Walk food is terribly overpriced so consider a meal at Esquire Tavern. They offer something different and better than the big sizzling plates served by many of their neighbors. One of SA’s best burgers is made here along with some of the best cocktails! You can expect to wait an hour to be seated at most River Walk restaurants. Esquire regularly seats guests within fifteen minutes without a reservation, and you don’t find many tourists. For added historical value, this is the oldest bar on the river as it opened to celebrate the end of prohibition in 1933. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/859b27e4-8c0b-4125-84bf-b656fc56a0ce/230807+Best+Restaurants+SA+-+Tacos.jpg BLOG - Best Restaurants In San Antonio - If you read that “_____ makes the best tacos”, you should… Probably try them because it’s hard to find a bad taco in San Antonio! Even the worst tacos in San Antonio could pass as an average taco in Austin. However, the best tacos may not come from the best taquerias, and that’s an important difference to understand. For example, I featured Taqueria Los Cuates because it makes my favorite al pastor taco, yet they have no other choices. Los Cuates is a must visit for an al pastor taco but is objectively a one trick taqueria. Other taquerias have more choices and still plate great al pastor tacos. So to satisfy your taco cravings, here are my favorite individual tacos across San Antonio: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/e30a3b53-b11f-45b3-9f98-25dd2f9c1bff/230807+Best+Restaurants+SA+-+Los+Cuates.jpg BLOG - Best Restaurants In San Antonio - If El Pastor Es Mi Senior OR Taquitos West Avenue is suggested, instead… Head straight to Taqueria Los Cuates! Visitors flood West Ave and Mi Señor for al pastor tacos. They both make memorable tacos, but no Texas Monthly, not the best ones in TX. No, not even the best in SA! However, Los Cuates just might create both. Los Cuates’ menu only offers an al pastor taco which is pretty much perfect. You’ll receive succulent tacos caramelized to perfection and a battery of fun salsas which you DO NOT add to the tacos before taking a bite. This deeply upsets me and the taco. This intimate taqueria is an essential taco stop in San Antonio, and has some of the best tacos I’ve experienced outside Mexico. Michelin missed out. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/prioritizing-travel monthly 0.5 2024-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/3f720cc3-dcbb-4f71-a6c3-118ae37052ea/5+-+A7401685.jpg BLOG - Go Back or Go Somewhere New: Prioritizing Travel - Chandni and I are very lucky that long term travel has taken us to many beautiful destinations. We found ourselves constantly comparing one destination to another, sometimes even before leaving. Our common conversation starter of “next time we’re here we’ll have to ____” eventually included questioning how likely we were to return at all. That became what we discussed most. Why should we return? Most places we visit are relatively expensive to reach from home, so why prioritize returning to a destination we’ve visited when there’s nearly a full planet left to explore? Three topics always came up with those questions: What major attractions did we miss, how delicious was the food, and what would we want to experience again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/524278de-ffc3-45e4-82d3-ec32faa1c58b/20230806_112401.jpg BLOG - Go Back or Go Somewhere New: Prioritizing Travel - Food is culture. Eating like a local opens your mind to new flavors of life that can’t be replicated outside their origin. Try brisket outside of Texas and tell me if you like it just the same as back home. My vegetarian readers that can’t relate, try thinking bean and cheese tacos for me with the same analogy. Choosing a new travel destination without exciting food actually makes it less appealing compared to a place that we know has great food. Eating food you aren’t excited for can put a damper on daily life, but it can absolutely ruin the impression of a travel destination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/9ed5b3da-eecb-4cab-8b06-3ba7a598bb2a/A7400495.jpg BLOG - Go Back or Go Somewhere New: Prioritizing Travel - Recently, a local from Milan told us that we had to return for a visit to the opera house because our experience of Milan was incomplete. We disagree. We appreciate that the Milan Opera House is among the world’s best in class, but we aren’t interested in opera or music history enough to prioritize a return to Milan just for a performance or tour. Watching a performance there won’t change the flavor of Milan’s risottos, how well its people treat us, or define our time in Milan outside that building. Our time in Milan was enjoyable but there’s no major attraction calling us back. Consider if visiting a single landmark changes how you feel about a place overall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/74be4b8a-f377-461f-abc9-8d569c91435e/20230208_124803.jpg BLOG - Go Back or Go Somewhere New: Prioritizing Travel - Nothing compares to experiencing something for the first time that you now love. However, you can relive similar experiences when traveling. Every year we prioritize a trip back to New Orleans even though many travelers avoid it based on poor assumptions. We rarely visit the wonderful museums in NOLA, we avoid Mardis Gras season, and we’re not that interested in jazz. Those are New Orleans essentials, but so are food and drink. The city plates some of the best flavors in the world, and their iconic dishes are nearly impossible to find elsewhere. Why go somewhere new specifically for food when we’ve never had a bad pate in New Orleans? We won’t ever get to experience that first hit of delicious red beans and rice again, but we’ll always love searching for the best version of it around town! https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/travel-in-budapest monthly 0.5 2024-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/8aeb8773-244c-4c2a-831c-db2c87361265/A7404570_Parliament+Building+Off+Center.jpg BLOG - Travel In Budapest - We stepped off the FlixBus into a world where we were illiterate. Czech was a tough language to decipher but Hungarian was basically impossible! Nobody was understandable and nobody spoke English. What we did know was that we needed a ticket into town on a street car. We searched the station, on the street car, and around the platforms but we still swear that there was nowhere to buy a ticket. Surely this wasn’t free, right…? Right. We left without a ticket, and just before reaching our stop, a transportation officer caught us! We were escorted off the street car in central Budapest and given two options: Pay the fine now, or involve local police to plead our case. As if we needed time to choose?! Thankfully the fine was only $30 each plus the cost to our travel pride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/0676b3a8-9f86-4a7e-a6f6-82076b0a300f/A7404735_Fishermans+Bastion+Overview.jpg BLOG - Travel In Budapest - Budapest wasn’t our favorite city. Sure, we could have made other choices or explored differently, but that wouldn’t have changed many of our difficulties. We still would have had trouble finding interesting vegetarian food. Bars and nightlife weren’t easy to reach or return from if you’re across town. You can’t plan for illness taking you down for a day or two. Thankfully we hit the major highlights and enjoyed what we saw, but after leaving we couldn’t decide what we would do if we returned. Is a luxurious bath worth crossing Europe? Probably not. Did I love Hungarian food enough to ask my señorita to go on a falafel cheese pizza diet for a while? Nope. So while we enjoyed Budapest we also agreed that there are other cities we’d rather visit in Europe and abroad. We’ll talk about one of those on the next post! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/b6d380bd-e53b-4b22-b861-41d606e2f478/20231108_030048.jpg BLOG - Travel In Budapest - Side note, this is maybe the coolest building design I’ve ever seen! We only stumbled upon it thanks to abandoning our bath house outing and exploring that park. This building being the Museum of Ethnography might make you ask, “What’s Ethnography???” just like I did as I wrote that instead of Néprajzi Múzeum. As I just learned, it’s a museum dedicated to the study of culture of the Hungarian people, and like I said, it’s one of my favorite buildings! Just look at it! It’s a curved national museum with part of a city park on top. This is actually only half the building because the other part doing this exact same curvy thing is on the other side of the plaza. It was closed when we arrived, but tell you what, I’d have visited no matter what it exhibited just to visit the interior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/736e8389-7a08-45aa-9e54-12828c90246f/20231107_115759.jpg BLOG - Travel In Budapest - We could have better researched vegetarian food. Hungarian food itself is delicious! Give me a goulash or chicken paprika and I’ll give you back an empty plate. However, give me a vegetarian in Hungary and we’ll both give you a hard time. Hunting for vegetarian versions of Hungarian food mostly led to failure before finding a veggie burger, cheese pizza, or falafel. One day we happily found a Michelin recommended Latin American restaurant with a beautifully plated vegetarian sampler dish! See that meal? It was our most disappointing meal in Europe. We were offered extra table salt as our meal arrived which is totally out of place but we quickly found out why. Everything tasted like beige! If you lost your taste during covid this will be familiar. A lime wedge shouldn’t be the most flavorful part of a dish! Can’t say we went to bed happy with that meal, but I sure woke up to a nice surprise! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/6573f55a-e740-46c3-952e-6cca204f3ee9/20231106_132912.jpg BLOG - Travel In Budapest - We could have taken better advantage of Budapest’s famous night life of bars and energy, but we didn’t visit many. Our favorite bar was also one of the coolest bars we experienced in Europe - Szimpla Kert. It’s a ruin bar which means it’s built in the literal ruins of another building! Like a video game, the two story bar is actually a series of smaller bars connected by scaffolding, sheet metal, and spare stuff. Imagine a post apocalyptic bar with neon everywhere and you’ll be close to visualizing this interior. No way OSHA let’s this thing stand back home because they probably serve as much tetanus as alcohol. Can’t say their drinks were better than other bars, but when I can watch a movie on a bean bag inside a room with pulsing dim purple lights and a cocktail in hand, you know it’s a special kind of special. Budapest has many ruin bars but the city is so big that we couldn’t easily reach many. We couldn’t easily explore at night, but we could during the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/0221ec28-8976-48e3-b7ec-741b86fe24d3/A7404881_Chain+Bridge+%26+Fisherman.jpg BLOG - Travel In Budapest - Unlike London, cost wasn’t the problem, it was just further from other options and there wasn’t a huge draw in the city before we began traveling. All I knew about Budapest was the iconic architecture which wasn’t enough to visit. Our own travel philosophy even kept us away because we prefer to travel to a few places in a new country for a chance to experience many parts of its culture. Budapest alone doesn’t represent the Hungarian people, culture, or energy. However, the closer we got to eastern Europe the more we kept hearing how much fun Budapest was from other travelers. Our own friends that had visited even started asking if we were traveling to Budapest. Finally, in neighboring Austria, we decided that we couldn’t pass it up! Travel to Budapest became a priority before leaving Europe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/9ba28d95-421b-449e-90ee-a353f1770a93/A7404638.jpg BLOG - Travel In Budapest - If you’ve seen my landscape and nature portfolio then maybe you also read the blurb about me being absolutely awful at sunrise. Nothing’s changed, I hate sunrise photography. However! We stayed very very close to a few city icons so I got myself up that next morning to photograph the Chain Bridge. The photography gods decided to bless me with thick fog across the Danube! The fog smothered the river and bridge to the point that not even sunrise light was visible. No drivers were awake to ruin my view so I came away with a proper foggy Budapest photo! It was our last morning so we didn’t get a chance wake up early again, but that made me wonder how many foggy mornings I had missed. Speaking of mornings… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/8fa2cb58-21b7-4dc8-a858-f357b0090f54/20231109_090611.jpg BLOG - Travel In Budapest - We could have explored deeper into the city by searching for more Kolodko Mini Statues. Artist Mihály Kolodko created a series of tiny statues that are on display across Budapest. Each holds satirical or creative significance to its location based on Hungarian politics or events. The statues are only a few inches tall and hidden in plain sight. There’s a tiny tank with a broken barrel on a stair case aimed at Parliament. A rabbit peers through a spyglass looking down at Pest from a high point in Buda. We found many, but it wasn’t until our last day that we wished we’d found more. They’re a great way to frame the city in a different context while teaching about history and culture. Local culture actually became a recurring problem thanks to the lack of vegetarian options. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/travel-in-prague monthly 0.5 2024-02-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/231f0fc7-c375-4ca3-ae24-7e0ac7790fff/20231101_135218.jpg BLOG - Travel In Prague - At some point we decided that we also needed something sweet to follow these thick savory meals. Our friends in Vienna had told us of this magical desert called a chimney cake - it was supposed to be a hollow cone of dough filled with ice cream and topped with pretty much whatever you wanted. They probably knew that as Americans this sugary dough tower would be right up our alley. What we were handed after ordering was a miracle the size of Chandni’s head! It was even better than we were told. The dough cone was state fair perfectly fried and held soft serve that was as decadent as anything back home. See that wild smile on the left? That’s not a smile saying, “Hooray, we finally found it”! That’s a smile because cone number 3 was making her (and me!) just as happy as cone number 1 did three days earlier! Seriously, we must have averaged one of these monsters per day. We regret nothing! By now you’re probably getting the idea that we basically just jumped between meals and snacks while in Prague. I mean, you right… However, there were some moments that we actually explored parts of the city outside a restaurant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/7fdd03bc-cf19-49a8-8cd4-27938ee5b1e8/A7404119_Charles+Bridge.jpg BLOG - Travel In Prague - Travel in Prague was very different than anywhere we had been to in Europe up to that point. For the first time ever we couldn’t understand anything written or spoken thanks to the Czech language. At least some German, Italian, and French words are understandable, but Czech is absolute gibberish to us. The second most common language we heard was Russian which didn’t help us out. The worst was when we needed extra towels and I found a very nice housekeeper who didn’t speak a lick of English. I basically played a casual game of charades in the hallway as a way to ask for a towel! I did get one. Don’t worry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/8f2d2d48-a9bd-44aa-a66b-01cbf7ce92e9/20231030_080638.jpg BLOG - Travel In Prague - Czech food wasn’t on my travel bingo card to love, but it’s was my biggest culinary surprise in Europe! Potato and bread dumplings were always soft and plump, especially when swimming in hot and savory mushroom sauce. Nobody cooked it all better than U Kroka! That little neighborhood restaurant just south of central Prague was a knockout that was so so good that we went back again to try new dishes. For $20 we got two beautiful plates of food with drinks included! The value of eating out in Prague is tremendous and tastes as good as anything in Europe. By the end of our time in Prague we were basically drinking goulash thanks to generous serving sizes and fantastic broths. Turns out there were also lots of vegetarian options in Prague! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/970e697f-a36d-4ce0-bfc3-c6d5cea65c27/A7404098_Prague+Bridges.jpg BLOG - Travel In Prague - Magenta burned the clouds and hit the city with a wonderful glow. The photo on the left is actually not the photo I planned to take. Another photographer had already setup in the limited space available to capture a similar view from a popular overlook in Letna Park. It felt like a bummer that I didn’t get the spot I wanted, but that just meant I captured something slightly more unique which I am always okay with! Orange by day, magenta by night, Prague was constantly smothered in color. The colors were a perfect contrast to the dark brick that so many of the buildings of Prague are made from. That was never more apparent than climbing the Powder Tower in historic central Prague. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/7fa69c4f-073c-4aac-81a8-83dc6684e984/A7403925.jpg BLOG - Travel In Prague - We spent lots of our time in Prague exploring parks to take full advantage of peak fall colors! Nobody ever told us Prague would be so colorful but it came as a wonderful surprise. The old fortress Vyšehrad was our first stop. The historic graveyard and cathedral still stand, but the remaining open spaces of the fort have become a city park. Walking along the old fortress walls gives panoramic views of Prague from every angle over the river. The best single view is down a staircase above the river. The stairs act as a leading line into the river which then leads into Prague Castle and St. Vitus Cathedral. It's a view that I had never seen photographed but that became one of my favorites! Sometimes I feel excited about a city photo but then I wonder why nobody else had popularized the view. It’s a question of, “why did nobody else take this shot”? This was one of those times, and it’s still one of my favorites from Prague. Ho w about that, I made it through a whole paragraph without mentioning food! Our next stop was Letna Park which is a must visit when you travel to Prague. We spent hours overlooking the city while walking between colorful trees through hiking trails, a skate park, and eventually a restaurant. There’s a pretty steep walk to reach the top but it’s worth the experience. When sunset rolled around the cloudy sky was beaming with color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/af5ead5d-5e76-459f-ac99-81b1a078e69e/A7404301_Prague+Powder+Tower.jpg BLOG - Travel In Prague - I’ve never seen the Powder Tower on any “Best Of Prague” list, but I visited thanks to a travel photographer’s video praising the view. The tower became a priority for me based on that video alone. Each floor of the tower had a few exhibit pieces while the roof had the best view of Prague! St. Vitus Cathedral and Church of Our Lady before Týn were basically practically begging to be photographed from that roof. Both are beautiful churches, but Týn also looks like an evil villain’s headquarters. Tripods weren’t allowed so I ended up steadying my camera on a stone ledge to get this shot. Photographing is fun, but that hobby also takes you to gorgeous views like this one where watching sunset over the city was perfect. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/london-budget-falling-down monthly 0.5 2024-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/4fb71f61-df0c-45a0-80af-883497014906/20231024_092359.jpg BLOG - London Budget Is Falling Down - The Gringots bank interior is inside the Australian Embassy. That’s well known, but what’s not well known is that they’ll let you in to see it so long as you don’t take a photo. The staff even told us that the interior was so perfect that the film crew pretty much only added cobwebs! You might be wondering why we didn’t just go to the Harry Potter studio tour instead. Well reader, I’ll have you know that we tried and it was absolutely sold out! And that was quite the bummer. But what wasn’t sold out (because it’s also free) was a visit to the Mina Lima studio museum! Mina Lima is named after Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima who created all the set pieces and world details in the Harry Potter films. They created everything from Hogwarts textbook covers, to Daily Prophet articles, to wand details. They’re the reason the movies look so wonderfully magical, and their studio is open to the public! We were like kids in the candy store. Ever gone to a store where you wanted to buy everything? That was us in Mina Lima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/e39cbd7b-3e77-4f4e-8624-7113c6a60533/20231023_142159.jpg BLOG - London Budget Is Falling Down - The first was Connaught Bar. In short, it’s easily the best bar we’ve ever visited! Every drink would have been the best drink at any other bar, and we had that experience three, four, five drinks in row. It was a perfect experience from flavor to floor service. My taste buds will return the moment my wallet is ready! The second was Tayer + Elementary which was an incredible disappointment. All their cocktails are pre-made and bottled in a fridge behind the counter. They also specifically told me I couldn’t order any classic or any off menu cocktails because they don’t stock spirits except to make their pre-mixed cocktails. Hot pre-made garbage! Ever had a bar tell you they can’t make you ANY drink? It was almost comical! They should be removed from the best bar list because (among many other things) customers don’t even know if the bartenders can make a drink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/3fea4ace-b6ec-4ff2-8a71-2d8baedafe68/A7403623_V2.jpg BLOG - London Budget Is Falling Down - Hundreds (if not thousands) of people were in line waiting for tickets at the British Museum, National Gallery, Natural History Museum, and other museums we visited. Each was like a Chick-fil-A drive thru at lunch. Sometimes you can’t plan ahead, but if you can, reserving free online museum tickets saves hours in London. It also saves face for England just a wee bit. Many treasures exhibited in British museums arrived from conquest across the planet rather than being purchased or donated - though many fine pieces are. We felt it was appropriate that they don’t charge for entry to view other nation’s cultural heritages. That’s especially true for the British Museum. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a world class museum, but you know many of those priceless artifacts weren’t charitable donations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/59c39726-f7a1-4aa8-af48-663645bf0392/20231025_061840.jpg BLOG - London Budget Is Falling Down - The museums were top notch, but let’s talk about the REAL reason we went to London: Chandni’s Harry Potter love! Sure, Croatian rain, a free hotel, and free museums drew us in, but Harry Potter filming locations accio-ed us there. Originally we were planning to visit Harry Potter World at Universal Orlando as part of our USA road trip. The park became less attractive once we saw the jaw dropping price, but actual filming locations were only a $60 flight away! We chose to visit them instead. London has filming locations for every movie so we visited as many as possible. When we got to a location we’d pull up the scene from the movie to take a photo with both. It was like a scavenger hunt where nostalgia is the prize! There are even some pro tips we discovered along the way that weren’t mentioned in any blog helping us hunt down the location. The actual platform 9 ¾ location is inside King’s Cross Station but only accessible with a train ticket or day pass. Nobody else was there. Everyone else was in the hour line waiting for a posed photo with a trolley half way through a wall. It’s a cute and fun tourist trap, but the real filming location being empty only a few hundred yards away was surprising. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/a18e0a05-09ae-4321-873f-db34c37858e2/A7403615_V2.jpg BLOG - London Budget Is Falling Down - The flight was smooth, but at the London airport border guards questioned my one way ticket. I was either “randomly checked” or their scanner flagged my one way only ticket. Thankfully it was no trouble. I was free to go after a short chat about my plans in the UK, future travel to Austria, and why I only bought a one way ticket. Chandni wasn’t flagged so it’s their loss that they didn’t get to meet her. London’s Stansted Airport is about an hour outside the main city. That meant we arrived to our hotel around 1 am after our bus dropped us off at a Whitechapel bus stop. Walking through the bustling London night felt like arriving in Munich all over again except we could understand all the rambles and ruckus. That was a really understated benefit of London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/4f8bcf69-fecd-4062-8bd7-5bac50673e46/20231026_083117.jpg BLOG - London Budget Is Falling Down - We bought two sets of tickets for shows at Royal Albert Hall. Not just any shows, the music of John Williams! I was finally going to hear music made for a galaxy far far away right in front of me! We bought standing tickets but the nose bleed ushers upgraded us to nearly floor seats thanks to the show not selling out. This galaxy has never sounded so good. Our second show was an orchestra performing the music of Jurassic Park live while the movie played in the background. They were so clean that we forgot an orchestra was playing and not a speaker! It was even a family matinee night so all tickets cost $5. ALL tickets cost $5. Hello box suite! Check tickets for Royal Albert Hall when you’re in London because they’re cheap. Those shows combined only cost $40. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/fb8e83b7-106b-4b60-ad8e-d4f8e221eafa/A7403822_London+Parliament+Bridge.jpg BLOG - London Budget Is Falling Down - One major attraction that we couldn’t visit was Big Bend. Tickets were sold out except for a single entry, and neither of us wanted to go alone that badly. So we did the next best thing – we told British Parliament security that we wanted to watch the House of Commons assembly! Parliament security won’t let you in without a tour. However, if you say that you want to spectate a live assembly then you’re given immediate entry! That’s how we got in. Granted there was a ton of waiting after entering because you have to wait to be called into the chamber thanks to limited seating room. Between all the waiting in lines, on benches, and in queues we saw lots of the parliament building’s interior. We stood where Churchill, Queen Elizabeth, and other major figures were laid in state. We got to watch the House of Commons debate inside the chamber. We even got to see the Prime Minister speak! We’ve probably never even been in the same city as Biden, but we were a hundred feet away from Rishi Sunak giving a speech. Maybe that doesn’t sound all that cool to most, but it was very special to get that far into active British government. Since our flight was cheaper than dirt and our hotel and museum visits were free, the only thing we really paid for was food and drink. And let me tell you what, we drank very stinkin’ well! Two of the world’s ten best bars are in London. Both were kind enough to pour us beverages. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/a-week-in-venice monthly 0.5 2024-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/77be732a-3941-48a2-a6c0-35dd6aa11d3b/A7403188_Venice+Grand+Canal.jpg BLOG - A Week In Venice - A few major landmarks we didn’t explore were the iconic Basilica di San Marco (Saint Mark's Basilica) and Palazzo Ducale (Doge's Palace) around Piazza San Marco (St. Mark's Square). Both are postcard iconic buildings in the heart of Venice having been featured in everything from James Bond to Assassin’s Creed. We’re usually great about mixing in major tourist sites into our itineraries but this time they didn’t much appeal to us. Sure, we went to appreciate their architecture and enjoy the St. Mark's Square, but Venice offered so much more without an entry fee. We got caught up in wandering the city instead. We weren’t wandering because we had nothing to do, we were wandering because it was our favorite thing to do. That’s part of how we got a two euro gondola ride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/407744ff-db2b-4e52-8161-9427b5c8b779/A7403225_Venice+Bascilica+Bridge_Blue.jpg BLOG - A Week In Venice - Venetian sunrises and sunsets were mostly spent above the Grand Canal on the Ponte dell'Accademia (Accademia Bridge). From there you can see all boats sailing towards the Adriatic from the Grand Canal. It’s a beautiful sight, but the down side of October is that you’re stuck shivering in the cold for sunrise and probably in the rain by sunset. I experienced both so I promise it’s so worth braving the elements! And I think that’s about how Venice can be summarized. No matter drizzly weather or eerie surroundings, there was never a time in Venice when should be discomforts actually made us uncomfortable. All of our worries came true but none of them fazed us. We loved the the experience that is Venice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/b48a18e1-d79b-46dd-b643-51c91a3fa542/20231017_122244.jpg BLOG - A Week In Venice - Cicchetti (pronounced she-keh-tee) is like a Venetian take on Spanish tapas except cheaper, even smaller, and cicchetti leans heavily into seafood of all kinds. Pieces regularly used creamed cod, squid ink, or tuna among other more common ingredients like cheeses and salami. You know, everything delicious that Chandni can’t eat! Luckily cheese and fruit based cicchetti are just as good! Each piece costs about one to two euros but tastes like it should be about four to five. Granted, we started by trying cicchetti at Osteria Al Squero and Cantine del Vino già Schiavi which are both famously delicious, but even when we chose random bars for cicchetti like Corner Pub (a new fav of ours) they still hit the spot. We got mighty thirsty thanks to all that eating so we made sure to down a Select spritz with them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/64c0d4ce-d879-4f1b-b9b9-cf23538c1e70/A7403173_Venice+Canal+Split+Bldg_B%26W.jpg BLOG - A Week In Venice - Venice hooked us the moment we left the train station! You step out onto a plaza bordered by the most unique city we’ve ever seen. A canal filled with boats of all shapes and sizes ran along the plaza. On the opposite side of the canal, was the main city of Venice. It was a solid wall of brick buildings built straight on the water. Everything seemed to be floating in place. The pedestrian bridges leaping the canal into Venice were filled with people capturing photos and vendors hoping to capture them. Once we crossed the bridge we got to experience how much fun getting “lost” in Venice can be! Every street was a narrow corridor lined by shops, restaurants, and my favorite, local pubs. It felt like every door between the endless brick walls lead to something that we wanted to see or try. Some doors were floating just above the water line. Every wall looked antique and grungy. Ever done a corn maze? Think of it kind of like that but with pastas, pizzas, and mold. And absolutely no greenery anywhere. We even found a building that split a canal in half! This building and the bridge I took the shot from were just featured in the 2023 film Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part1! We’re basically one step removed movie stars. Discovering new bridges, canals, and docks didn’t get old until we started feeling the weight of our packs. Crossing the city exploring for photos has its perks, but so does watching a movie warm in bed. That urge sent us across town in a totally different direction to our hosts home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/08989403-b84c-4007-9f45-3539ba5262db/A7403323.jpg BLOG - A Week In Venice - A thirty minute ferry ride took us to the most colorful town you can image - every building is a different vibrant color! Like Venice, canals wind through Burano, but the majority of vendors here only sell lace based clothing. At one point Burano was the most famed lace producer in Europe so it’s a long running tradition. Did we buy any? Nope, out of budget. But we sure were tempted! A day in Burano is best spent wandering the streets for free to find the next rainbow row. The entire town is eye candy, but it is missing affordable food options. We stuck to our grocery store lunch watching boats pass by while fighting off over eager pigeons. It was a solid day trip, but the day wasn’t over. Before we made it home we passed by a church advertising a concerti of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to be performed in the church by night. Fun fact, we’re big fans of the series Chef’s Table which uses the Winter movement in its theme song. Couldn’t pass up hearing that live! We bought tickets straight away and loved every second of it! Most classical performances are held in an auditorium or concert hall, but church acoustics should get way more credit. Exploring a Venetian night afterwards was like living a film noir sequence. We had a nice light gloss of wet pavement to make the mood perfect thanks to a light drizzle throughout our entire visit. Most Venetian streets became eerily quiet but never scary. Making our way through them felt like being in a brand new city. However, we were also on the hunt for two of Venice’s most famous culinary takes – cicchetti and Select. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/the-dolomites-might-be-our-fav monthly 0.5 2024-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/24ffd75d-300e-4792-98c4-85842a5cdb12/A7403045_St+Valentine.jpg BLOG - The Dolomites Might Be Our Fav - Someone at Google decided to post a public school bus route on Maps. We were the only adults on the bus besides the driver so imagine our confusion when it rolled up. But hey, we made it up the mountain and over to the church! A small dairy farm neighbors San Valentin so the smell was exactly as you imagine. Also photographing the church was a photographer from New York named John who had already chosen the best vantage point. I was lucky that he offered to let me setup right next to him. He and his wife were very kind. Unfortunately the clouds weren’t. They had been missing in my two previous sunsets so they all decided to crowd this one. We barely managed to see the upper areas of the mountain before it occluded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/ccb8c2af-904b-4f38-874d-b6cee1dd0ee2/A7402860.jpg BLOG - The Dolomites Might Be Our Fav - Most of our Dolomite travel was planned while looking at Google Maps in Munich. We saw the Dolomites as being two main areas. The western half in Bolzano had more mountain towns and could be visited without a car. This would save us a ton of money but be a lot slower to navigate. The eastern half in Veneto was more rugged and required mountain hut reservations plus a car to reach trailheads. While it was the more naturally beautiful side, getting hut reservations and a car so last minute was nearly impossible. We chose to focus on the western side instead of trying to thinly cover both. From the town of Ortisei we would travel to the gorgeous mountain churches around the Dolomites. That journey started with a FlixBus ride from Munich to the Dolomites to get as close to Ortisei as possible. From our FlixBus stop we were dependent on local mountain buses to ship us up into the mountains for the remaining dozen kilometers. Riding a bus in the Dolomites felt like riding a train in Switzerland. You’re constantly bewildered by the landscape and fresh mountain air. The only major difference being that once you arrive to town the air is slightly pizza scented. Our check in location was unexpectedly across town from the home we rented. One other bus ride across town and a twenty minute walk uphill finally got us home. The rental home was waaaaay above town so the view from its patio shown on the left made the daily trek up worthwhile. That patio became my first Dolomite photo location and the only easy one to access. The other locations mostly required navigating three buses to reach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/c8da7aee-3d31-4d0d-85be-fd3da606c8e3/A7402980_San+Giovanni.jpg BLOG - The Dolomites Might Be Our Fav - Sunset number three sent us straight back to Santa Magdalena to photograph probably the most famous church in the Dolomites – San Giovanni. This is the church view you’ll mostly find on postcards of the area. That made it a generic, but essential photograph to capture. I was hoping to explore and be slightly creative but not after seeing what we discovered on arrival. The field in front of the church is all above the main road and circled by a thick wooden fence. You can’t see this view from a public space. Except one. There’s a small viewing platform on the field up some stairs from the road. Every photograph you see of this church, including mine, are probably taken from this platform. Realizing the creative limitation made me less excited, as did the lack of clouds or atmosphere. While not a snazzy image, the view was easily top notch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/f7a3549d-7a6e-4a73-95aa-61c96438ca85/A7402903+-+A7402909_V9.jpg BLOG - The Dolomites Might Be Our Fav - Chandni was not feeling well on our first day back in Italy. She went to bed very early while I took a janky van ride (supposedly a bus) higher into the mountains above our home to reach San Giacomo. Despite soaring up nearly 1,000 feet by “bus”, I had a couple of hundred more left on foot. I didn’t expect much of a sky based on the thick clouds but I was hoping for a break. Once I reached the church and caught my breath, I spoke to an Italian photographer who shared my worries. He and everyone else left before sunset. A photographic nightmare came true as I was setting up: I had forgotten to bring the right lens! I literally could not shoot how I wanted. I was stuck doing a panorama while hoping for cloud color. And that color decided to magically scream across the sky! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/08ee4e68-040b-4f79-9d57-c74b01d9207d/A7402958_Santa+Maria+View.jpg BLOG - The Dolomites Might Be Our Fav - The next sunset wasn’t quite the same show stopper, but it was spectacular in its own right. We took three buses and a twenty minute walk each way to reach a view point over Santa Magdalena. It was the only sunset guaranteed to have vibrant lighting as proven by the herd of photographers waiting. There must have been sixty or more people with a camera. Among them was famous YouTuber Jason Vong! I’ve seen plenty of his videos so Chandni encouraged me to go say hi. It took me a while to muster up the courage, but introduced myself I did! I immediately messed up his name and called him James… He quickly corrected me. You know those moments you remember years later that are embarrassing to you but that nobody else remembers? That’s now one of mine. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/a-weekend-in-salzburg monthly 0.5 2024-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/ec2ae117-1164-4d50-8f5d-076bc94fc7ec/A7402767_Salzburg+River+Sunrise.jpg BLOG - A Weekend In Salzburg - Getting to Salzburg from Munich is incredibly easy thanks to a direct train line. The German train network issues a day pass for the German state of Bavaria that also includes Salzburg. It’s a sweet deal because you can effectively ride anywhere in Bavaria for free and then get to Salzburg before your day pass ends. It would be perfect if the German trains could arrive anywhere on time. We chose to go straight to Salzburg early to enjoy as much time in the city as possible. It turned out that our host was a professional tour guide in Austria so we got way more tips and tricks than expected! Our friends know that we love sharing travel ideas so it was fun receiving an idea dump back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/f0273ebe-8729-4481-832f-43bf0833b92f/20231005_125422.jpg BLOG - A Weekend In Salzburg - Wiener schnitzel is different than regular schnitzel thanks to being veal while the latter is typically pork, chicken or something not veal. It also has no relation to the delicious hot dog chain. I was so excited to finally have that honker of a deep fried meat slab deep in front of me that I might have finished it in a couple of bites! Not really sure what happened thanks to the food coma I entered afterwards. What I am sure of is we arrived to the restaurant without a reservation so we were placed in a shared table upstairs and a little out of the way. That’s where we met Jacob. Jacob is a young Italian state police officer from Rome working in the towns near Venice. He was probably the best possible person to meet in Salzburg because we were next heading to the Dolomites and then Venice! We spent most of dinner chatting with him and taking notes on his food, drink, and destination tips. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/ba94de6d-af0d-4247-89ab-1ee05af8a90e/20231006_031105.jpg BLOG - A Weekend In Salzburg - Amongst other modern features is a scale model of Fortress Hohensalzburg and historic Salzburg made from pure salt! It’s so stinkin’ cool and also fitting once you learn that salt mines made Salzburg terribly rich – Salzburg translates to Salt Fort. From the top of the Hohensalzburg you feel like everything in Austria is visible. Every window, terrace, and walkway we visited had beautiful views of the countryside and city below. The original chapels and dungeons still felt somber. It’s entirely worth a half day visit or more, but the same can’t be said about our next stop, Hellbrunn Palace. This palace just outside the main historic area of town was built as a summer day home for the Prince Archbishops. It’s now an art and historical museum that you can probably see in just over an hour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/00ed57ab-3048-4d39-af79-3198f836a649/A7402809_Humboldt-Terrasse.jpg BLOG - A Weekend In Salzburg - There are two massive hills flanking the city. The one on the north has a historical castle that’s now a monastery while the hill on the south has a modern science museum on top. However, the hills were not alive with the Sound of Music. They’re mostly filled with car honks echoing from below. Both hills have spectacular views of Salzburg so we can’t recommend them enough! We first chose to visit the southern hill for a view of Fortress Hohensalzburg. Sunset is especially beautiful from this hill because as the sun drops the sky color kicks off behind the Fortress and then the entire city glows into night life. We captured some great photos during this time and rewarded ourselves with awesome Wiener schnitzel afterwards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/0499675f-f5af-4097-bcf5-04c0f479fbab/original_f6782ae8-7c50-4bb9-bc54-27aef604a92d_20231006_052719.jpg BLOG - A Weekend In Salzburg - Day one was easy and fun - we visited Mozart’s residence, his birth home, and very quickly decided that we didn’t need to do both. His adult home was much simpler than you’d expect. It was filled with memorabilia and trivia about him and his family, but you could easily get through it in an hour. However, his birth home was different. Memorabilia and trivia were included, but there were many more exhibits, family heirlooms, and videos. It felt like reading through a Mozart textbook in a fun way. If you visit Salzburg, pick one of his two homes, and preferably make that choice his birth home. For lunch we swung by St. Peter Stiftskulinarium, the oldest restaurant in Europe and possibly even the world! Just a casual pop in to see how they’ve held up since approximately the year 800. I am happy to report that St. Peter’s is doing just fine, having embraced the modern world by being an Instagram ready haven! We found neon signs, colorful shag decor on couches, vibrant place mats, and upbeat music. Oh yeah, and good food. We only ordered desert because of the prices but they tempted us to splurge on more after only a couple of bites. Food aside, it was almost surreal to find so much modern energy in such a historic venue. They are the definition of keeping up with the times which is probably how St. Peter’s survived this long. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/oktoberfest-in-munich monthly 0.5 2024-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/21554fb7-827e-45df-a63c-8c7ae0683e32/A7402489.jpg BLOG - Oktoberfest In Munich - I was stopped at the main gate by one of the dozens of security guards. My pack violated the minimum size so I was refused entry. I was told to walk against the crowd to reach the bag holding tent, wait in line, and then pay €7 for staff to hold my bag. After waiting in line for a bit I returned to the main gate wading through a now much larger entry crowd. Trying to find Chandni and Feng felt like searching for a needle in a stack of needles. Somehow we all found one another through the crowd just inside the gate. First things first, we went straight to drink the classic beer of Oktoberfest in the Augustiner beer tent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/b0034a1c-b977-4b77-9116-6b87923d0787/A7402469.jpg BLOG - Oktoberfest In Munich - While I like beer, Chandni does not. However, to sit down in a tent you have to order something so we thought ordering her water would be a work around. Ordering that water in a beer tent turned into a €14 expense! A liter of water in the beer tent cost more than my apartment’s monthly water bill. Water and beer cost the same. A little annoyed at the cost of water, we returned for our water bottles to explore a different tent. We found our bottles missing. That was where what was left of the fun promptly died. Not even a pretzel the size of our head could salvage things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/ad46d6f8-a3f9-474e-ba7a-e6bff79d58f3/20231001_030054.jpg BLOG - Oktoberfest In Munich - We stepped off our bus at Munich Central to enter a rowdy Saturday night. Oktoberfest was in full swing just down the road so the fun was spilling over. Nightlife was flashy, the streets were busy, so trying to find Feng in the middle of the chaos was next to impossible. Once we found him underground in the metro station we dodged the crowds and went straight home. That’s where we met one of his roommates and were introduced to the classic German toilet. I could describe the oddity of a German toilet here but maybe you Google that for educational purposes. Let’s just say it’s not something you expect after arriving from the States but I don’t deny that it works very well. Toilet aside, our plan was to visit Oktoberfest the next morning so we got to bed quickly right after Feng gave us our beer pitcher socks! If I still had an office job, I’d proudly wear them to work. The next morning we joined the crowds to Oktoberfest. Turns out you can pretty much follow people with a morning beer in hand towards Oktoberfest if you’re ever unsure of how to reach the festival. If that doesn’t give you enough confidence, follow the lederhosen. Those in the traditional Bavarian outfits only head toward Oktoberfest in the morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/c959e7b8-4edf-4c54-bc30-82fc29ad7358/A7402667.jpg BLOG - Oktoberfest In Munich - By far the best part of Munich was getting to spend time with Feng. Watching anime, sampling his instant food from China, and discovering some weirdly delicious Vietnamese food together in Munich felt like old times in college. There was a day he offered to show us the surfers in the park. Sure enough, we watched people in wet suits surfing waves in the English Garden. Outings aside, just sharing in his excitement to return home and see his loved ones was a blast! The next time we visit Feng he may be in China. Once that happens, it’ll be hard to find a reason for returning to Germany that we’re nearly as excited for. Every destination has something worth visiting, but we’ll have to find a new one in Germany. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/a-week-in-zermatt monthly 0.5 2024-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/4548ef8e-f22c-4997-a609-37f928b196fb/A7401804.jpg BLOG - A Week In Zermatt - We mountain goated our way up very steep sections precariously made of loose gravel.All views in Zermatt are postcard worthy, but the views from this trail are magic! The Matterhorn towers right above you the entire hike. On a clear day you’ll see tiny Zermatt below and every peak in the region around you. The last push is a true alpine section. You hike along a bouncy metal grate above a huge drop. Anyone with a fear of heights will have a terrible time because you can see straight through the grate down the drop below. Add in that the walkway has missing sections and you have a proper test of fortitude. Ultimately the trail was iced over just after this section so we couldn’t continue, but what an amazing hike! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/9ee65cf1-4e3c-4aad-ad44-30c126a5650e/A7401685.jpg BLOG - A Week In Zermatt - Our two favorite hikes were actually less popular. The first was a hike through the seasonal trail Gorner Gorge. The trail is a wooden boardwalk in a ravine above the Gornera River. There’s a 10 CHF fee to enter, but you’ll also be nearly alone hiking above rapids and waterfalls! Even the trail to reach the Gorner Gorge boardwalk goes through a pretty mountain forest. Timing your visit in the mid afternoon will allow the sun to enter the gorge. The second hike was to the Matterhorn base camp! The Hörnli Hut is a mountain house on the slopes of the Matterhorn where many alpinists begin their Matterhorn summit attempt. It was closed when we visited but the trail was open. After a very long cable car ride up the mountains we began our ascent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/c82da030-ece4-47c7-8334-26c4b08ea0b6/A7401923_Gorgengrat+Bahn+Horz+1.jpg BLOG - A Week In Zermatt - We rode them anyway. The cable cars took us almost everywhere we needed and saved us probably a full day of hiking. Anyone visiting Zermatt must budget a hundred CHF or more for cable car rides. As I said, they save sooooo much time but will cost a wallet in a weekend if you have a large group. The Swiss GA Pass and other Swiss travel passes give discounts on Zermatt’s cable car passes so invest in a travel pass when you visit Switzerland. Depending on the pass, the train ride to Zermatt may also become free! Hiking uphill can become really tough anywhere, but doing it daily can even become a grind. That’s why we enjoyed everything in Zermatt except one thing: walking home. Our apartment was great, but it was situated half a mile from the center of town, there was limited bus service, and the last section was a 100 meter uphill walk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/b618f119-8c19-428c-98d8-afe241f6e42c/A7401736_Zermatt+Overview+Horiz.jpg BLOG - A Week In Zermatt - The view I was most excited to photograph was also a mile away from us. For three days straight before sunrise and sunset I walked the two mile round trip down our hill, across town, up the mountain side, and back. I kept returning so many times hoping for clouds but only found clear skies. Clear skies make for a great view, but a great view doesn’t make a great image. Even though I’m not as happy with my image as I could have been, I am happy that my attempts lead me to watch sunrise and sunset at such a pretty place. I wouldn’t have braved the freezing temperature without the motivation of photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/915fa9d3-47bb-49b1-afdf-e5178c36f726/20230926_034550.jpg BLOG - A Week In Zermatt - Menus posted in the restaurant windows only offered $25 plates. Souvenirs were double the price anywhere we had visited since we arrived in Europe. Speaking of doubles, it seemed like the average visitor age was nearly double ours! We were in the most expensive city that we would visit in Europe in groups that could actually afford to visit. Thankfully I had found a fully furnished apartment outside the central area that came with a kitchen. We cooked every meal while in Zermatt except for the greasy goodness of a $2.98 cheeseburger at McDonald’s. We’re now connoisseurs of microwave meals and frozen pizzas, and let me tell you what, Swiss frozen meals put American frozen meals to shame! Maybe Swiss food is so expensive that there must be cheaper yet still tasty options created in the frozen section. People would probably riot otherwise. The point is we didn’t starve! Calories are especially important in trail towns like Zermatt because you hike to most things worth visiting. Every day came with a hike for us starting with the famous Five Lakes trail. The aptly named trail starts in the mountains and connects five alpine lakes. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/bern-travel monthly 0.5 2023-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/157b4664-dabe-417f-b303-e933869a2fec/A7401564_Bern.jpg BLOG - Burning Up In Bern - That delay forced us to scramble across Bern to our hotel before rushing to a sunset at Rosengarten Bern. The rose garden sits on a hill above the Alstadt overlooking the Aare River. I tend to stay in one spot for an hour when I photograph sunsets so I was excited to be in a garden for once. It turned out to be one of my favorite views during our travels! The spectacular view actually made it tougher to photograph because of how many beautiful buildings were in sight. The hundreds of people waiting there for sunset when we arrived didn’t help, either. Shooting near everyone else would guarantee the same image that hundreds of cell phones capture every day. I chose to move away from the crowd for my more unique take on the skyline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/9ccb5eeb-7ac6-49cf-9d4a-412ff42dde76/20230922_061724.jpg BLOG - Burning Up In Bern - We hadn’t heard Spanish or seen a taco in a while. Were they great tacos? Nope, but for a full Mexican crew living in Switzerland they did a mighty fine job cooking nopal tacos with what was available. I’m sure they’ve introduced many people to something spicier than black pepper. I also can’t talk about our dining experience without mentioning the soap dispenser in the restroom. They turned a tequila bottle into a soap dispenser. When we own a home, we will also be turning a tequila bottle into a soap dispenser! After our taco injection we kept browsing boutiques and back alleys in Bern with no real aim. Have you ever wandered so hard that you accidentally stumbled into an active government chamber? We have. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/2486cc4f-e783-4c37-9a2d-99c9d45b20ed/A7401603.jpg BLOG - Burning Up In Bern - Sometime that night I started running a fever. I felt bad enough in the morning that I told Chandni to head out while I rested. Around lunch time I reluctantly got up, and to be honest, I was more excited for grocery store food than for exploring Bern. I didn’t even remember much of what we did that day in Bern without checking our travel journal. That’s because we just took it slow, walked around town, and headed home early. My creativity was shot so I only snapped a couple of photos. One of those shots included the charmer on the right. Clearly, sometimes rest is necessary even when traveling. Day two started as well as day one but my fever had broken over night. You know that gross feeling waking up in sweat after a broken fever? That was my morning alarm. This time Chandni woke up extra early for a morning solo trip to nearby Thun without me, but we agreed to meet up at a Mexican restaurant for lunch. Yes, that’s right, tacos in Bern were on our lunch menu! Something unique to Bern are the businesses inside cellars between the sidewalk and the traffic lanes in the old town. Underground is where we found our tacos hiding. Being sick and tasting something from home was unbeatable! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/a6fb900e-fbe3-4c31-8c9c-66858d947b24/A7401627.jpg BLOG - Burning Up In Bern - Yes, the train is named the Chocolate Express and it’s covered inside and out with paintings of chocolate! While you might think such a sweet ride choo choos you to heaven, it actually takes you to the front door of a chocolate factory. Close enough! The Cailler tour is much smaller than the Lindt tour found in Zurich, but unlike the Lindt tour they offer more types of chocolate samples during the tour. Bother tours showcase how proud the Swiss are of inventing milk chocolate. However, after now trying many, we’re very sure that while we appreciate Swiss milk chocolate, we’re dark chocolate lovers through and through! https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/a-day-in-montreux monthly 0.5 2024-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/625ad1d2-2b3b-4e8c-b942-1633201d6f16/A7401512.jpg BLOG - A Day In Montreux - Montreux was our first choice to visit after Chamonix because that’s where the Golden Pass Railway begins. This iconic train route travels across half of Switzerland along some of its most famous mountains and lakes. The train is painted a special shade of gold and offers extra amenities on board. Our Swiss GA Pass guaranteed free travel on the train, but we splurged to reserve window seats. We planned to ride it most of the way before hopping off near the end to reach Switzerland’s capital, Bern. Traveling Switzerland by train had been extremely scenic on every route so we were pumped for this train experience. Then our poor Chamonix luck came back full force… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/b56fec08-2c8a-414b-8b9c-aef1d4756612/A7401543.jpg BLOG - A Day In Montreux - Queen and castles sites were great visits, but our favorite boardwalk stop was way off to the north. We heard about a town named Chexbres that overlooked the lake and was a huge regional producer of wine. We were absolutely floored when we arrived. Millions of grapes ready for harvest stretched all the way to the horizon! We’ve visited vineyards in off season before, but never just as they’re being harvested. Two or three times we actually had to dodge trucks filled with grapes driving through the narrow roads. Scheduling a tasting or a tour should be a priority for anyone traveling this area. You’ll have many vineyards to choose from and phenomenal views of the lake. Unfortunately, timing didn’t work out for us to reserve a tasting but that would be a top priority of ours next time we’re in the area! Even if time didn’t allow a tasting, just walking around Chexbres in September is magical. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/b4e31b1c-f065-48e9-86a9-2b13c3623b1e/A7401514_Chillon+and+Mountains.jpg BLOG - A Day In Montreux - The Montreux boardwalk a few blocks away was our next stop. It runs along the waterfront of Lac Leman connecting all the neighboring towns and featuring the areas most famous attractions. We missed out on the boardwalk’s annual jazz festival, but we did get to see the Freddie Mercury statue. The sculpture (also seen on the cover of the final Queen album) stands tall and proud overlooking the lake as a tribute to all the love Freddie shared. It’s less than a ten minute walk from the Studio Experience so if you visit one, you should visit the other. Everybody loves Freddie, and every visitor wants a photo with his statue, so arrive early to get your solo shot in. Heading the opposite direction is Chillon Castle. The centuries old fortress served as a prison, guard post, fortress, and even a nearly self sufficient estate once it was fully built. It’s currently the most well preserved medieval castle of its time. It’s so clean and well kept that Game of Thrones may as well have been filmed here. Stepping into it is like stepping back in time; parties and events are still hosted inside the original dining hall, the dungeon is perfectly spooky and somehow the latrines still smell, well, like latrines after 700 years. You can even time a visit to experience a centuries old castle tradition. Wine is still aged in the castle’s cellars and uncorked from the barrel once a year! Guests visiting at just the right time are able to buy this wine. You can likely visit Chillon Castle comfortably by arriving two to three hours before closing, especially on a weekday. Some corridors and staircases are narrow so avoiding those extra people would be extra nice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/a8cca1b1-22a0-4703-b1e8-d3d571faff01/20230919_081028.jpg BLOG - A Day In Montreux - Montreux is absolutely nuts about Queen. Not Elizabeth, but the Freddie Mercury can’t stop me now bite the dust kind of Queen. We’re pretty much Queen historians now thanks to the free Queen Studio Experience tour in the Casino Barriere Montreux - this is where Queen recorded their final albums, and the last place Freddie Mercury recorded vocals before passing away. Not only do they have tons of memorabilia, there’s also a Queen short documentary film and an interactive recording room where you can mix your own versions of a few Queen songs. It’s like karaoke! Sometimes the person mixing sounds great. Most of the time it sounds like you’d expect. An unofficial part of the Studio Experience is the massive wall outside the casino covered in thousands of fan messages to Queen. Inside and out, the Queen Studio Experience is a solid visit lasting about an hour. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/chamonix-without-the-tmb monthly 0.5 2024-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/5afb5d3c-1bd7-4f76-9841-f552e63ae223/A7401286.jpg BLOG - Visiting Chamonix Without the TMB - Taking a half day to visit Parc de Merlet was one of the best decisions we made in Chamonix. The park is a nature preserve almost 600 meters above the valley. There’s a bus to the park in summer but you can also drive yourself up. The most fun option is to hike up the mountain trails like we did! Not only do you get amazing valley views, you’ll also find a hidden password along the trail for discounted entry to the park. Once you’re inside, you’ll start searching for the marmot, ibex, and big horn hiding in the park. We were super lucky to find an ibex on his throne! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/993ca4c8-f656-471d-8152-7e2fb3b69f56/A7401454_Chamonix+Town+and+Mountains.jpg BLOG - Visiting Chamonix Without the TMB - We kept the remaining trail day reservations hoping to at least hike part of the TMB. Then came the forecasted thunderstorms all week as we arrived in Chamonix. The thought of daily hiking in rain towards a small hut with forty other wet backpackers was less than appealing. Especially when our Chamonix hotel had a thousand free arcade games, a proper shower, and a happy hour. At that point we made the tough call to cancel the hike entirely. While incredibly frustrating, it wasn’t all bad. We ended up exploring the town a lot more than we expected! Here’s what we did in Chamonix instead of the TMB, and why it’s still worth a summer visit even without hiking the Tour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/81cd1f94-976f-4e8b-8af4-6287979b5133/20230916_064140.jpg BLOG - Visiting Chamonix Without the TMB - The food in Chamonix was also no slouch. We’ve now had food all across Europe but were just as impressed by Chamonix’s tastes as anywhere else! You could easily make a vacation just sampling restaurants while enjoying mountain views. Visiting on a budget? Try Cool Cats because they offer gourmet hotdogs inspired by many different cultures. Have a little more to spend? Go to the restaurant at RockyPop Hotel in neighboring Les Houches for an incredibly underrated menu of French Italian fusion and desert. Are you here to splurge? Bring a group for fondue at Chez Constant, but don’t order potatoes. You’ll be disappointed in yourself whether you finish them or not. If you’ve never had fondue, know that you need two people to order that dish, because not even Americans can finish an entire cauldron of melted cheese on their own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/21267405-45aa-45a8-b814-6b235364e144/20230916_080730.jpg BLOG - Visiting Chamonix Without the TMB - A multi day lift pass is incredibly valuable in Chamonix! You get free access to every cable car and lift in the Valley. A two days pass is about $100 and pays for itself in only a couple of uses if you visit Aiguille du Midi. We made sure to ride a cable car there first! Aiguille du Midi is the highest cable car in France and gives visitors a close encounter with Mont Blanc. The glass floor at the top was especially memorable because this blog’s co author is afraid of heights! On the other side of the valley, we rode up to Le Brevent twice for panoramic views of the Mont Blanc range and the Chamonix valley. Then came the free train to Mer de Glace. Beyond the glacier hikes the area offers, you can also enter an ice cave! Try the frigid 300 year old melting water while you’re in the cave. It’s Michelin star quality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/b23eaf34-0ad5-499e-8671-56a91e6787f8/A7401429_Chamonix+Church+View.jpg BLOG - Visiting Chamonix Without the TMB - The plan was to bus through the Mont Blanc tunnel from Italy and start in Chamonix. Travelers arriving from Italy must use that tunnel to reach Chamonix. Otherwise it’s hours of detour around the mountains by car, or a full day by using three different country’s trains and bus. We’d leave our unnecessary gear at the hotel in Chamonix, hike 11 days, and return to the same hotel for our gear and relaxation time. Then they decided to close the tunnel for the first time in years starting a few days before we arrived! We couldn’t reschedule to arrive early thanks to our plans in Italy. Obviously we couldn’t start later. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/guide-on-hiking-schafler-ridge monthly 0.5 2024-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/b0408d0b-5914-4184-a166-2e2b6e842f40/20230911_021516_.jpg BLOG - A Guide on Hiking the Schäfler Ridge - Passing Berggasthaus Ebenalp ends the early steep section and takes you to the middle flatter section. Read flatter as, “sometimes flat, mostly just not steep”. This section will be on a narrow trail hugging the north side of the mountain you’re hiking. You’ll have solid views of the beautiful pastures to the north and an excellent view of the approaching Schäfler range. You’ll reach Chlus at the end of this trail section which also marks the end of anything flat. Chlus looks like a stable but marks an important point in the hike where three major trails intersect. Head left (south) to reach Seealpsee in the valley, head right (north) to reach the trails around the range, or go straight (west) up the switchbacks to reach the summit. Most of the elevation gain hiking to Schäfler from Ebenalp is in this last little stretch. Get ready to be tired! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/7f6d5195-cc7c-47e3-b86b-29e5022318ea/20230911_024526_.jpg BLOG - A Guide on Hiking the Schäfler Ridge - The trail from the upper cable car station to Schäfler is a steep beginning, then it mostly flattens out, and then there’s nothing but quad busting switch backs in the home stretch. On a clear day you’ll see Berggasthaus Schäfler on the summit for the entire hike as shown in the image. That’s your end goal! If the weather is bad, you won’t see it until you’re close, and remember, up here you won’t have any cover from the elements. From the cable car station, follow the signs to Schäfler which will take you to the right of the Berggasthaus Ebenalp. That has tons of food and drink, but it’s less than a couple of hours until you reach the summit. However, use the restroom here if you need one because there are no other options until you reach the top of Schäfler. There’s also tons of food and drink at Schäfler but with a far better view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/b1a02bf0-a7ee-405a-88ef-a3091e7bffc9/A7401019.jpg BLOG - A Guide on Hiking the Schäfler Ridge - Hiking the alps is a goal of ours in every country while traveling Europe. In Italy we’ll explore the Dolomites, in France we’ll section hike the Tour du Mont Blanc, and in Switzerland we climbed Schäfler. The Schäfler ridge is tough to reach because it’s hours by train from a major city but it’s absolutely worth the effort! The ridge looks like a fantasy landscape. It’s peaks are broad, coarse, and jagged. Berggasthaus Schäfler is a mountain house perched on top of Schäfler overlooking the gnarly ridge line where terrain forces hikers onto a narrow trail. This is where they must trust their balance and a chain for stability. So of course, the daunting ascent of Schäfler sounded like a perfect day for us! How could we pass up that kind of hike or photographic opportunity?! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/7b62b9eb-f22c-4bdb-ab3d-e11958750dde/A7401081_Berggasthaus+Schafler+Sunrise.jpg BLOG - A Guide on Hiking the Schäfler Ridge - You’ll immediately be hit by views of all the peaks in the range. The smell of fresh food and beer from Berggasthaus Schäfler will hook you. And you should let it, you’ve earned that beer and Rosti! Grab a table if you can find one or make mountain friends by asking to join a table with space. Everyone up here loves hiking, the mountains, and a good conversation over a beer. I highly recommend spending the night here because you’ll get spectacular sunsets and sunrises with good weather. Breakfast is included in the cost of a room. The facilities are clean and spacious, plus meeting other hikers is fun. Staff is incredibly friendly and speaks English well. I can’t wait to return! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/37a37f6b-ad2b-4773-96e4-834c8440e731/A7400970.jpg BLOG - A Guide on Hiking the Schäfler Ridge - Once the cable car reaches the top you’ll be able to enjoy the para gliders taking off. You can and should also take a detour downhill and view the Aescher Hut. On your way to Aescher you’ll descend through a cold mountain cave, pass by a mountain chapel on the edge of a cliff, and have striking views of the mountains for the entire hike. The Aescher guest house uses the mountain face as a wall making it one of the most visually iconic mountain huts in the world. Expect a crowd taking photos at this location and use it for a quick snack with a killer view. There is also a full restaurant inside if you want to wait for patio seating or didn’t bring your own food. From Aescher, return to the cable car station and follow the path and signs further uphill toward Schäfler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/b3d292d4-73de-4ee4-807d-5774f96fe400/A7400912.jpg BLOG - A Guide on Hiking the Schäfler Ridge - The trail takes you higher than needed so you’ll find yourself descending into Seealpsee. It’s a tough option making the paved road seem flat so I don’t recommend this hike. Since you chose the paved road, you’ll reach beautiful Seealpsee within an hour. Right away you’ll be floored by the sapphire water and peaks around the lake. There’s a mountain house on the lake that serves food and drink with indoor and outdoor seating. There’s also a toilet available so don’t pee in the lake. Hiking around Seealpsee takes maybe half an hour. Swimming is permitted as long as you can tolerate that frigid water! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/e167ac3d-16f8-4c0f-b235-ec0e77b2465b/A7401042_Berggasthaus+Schafler+Sunset_%231.jpg BLOG - A Guide on Hiking the Schäfler Ridge - The final push is a fairly short distance, but it’s very, very steep! If you haven’t realized by now, Swiss steep is much worse than American steep. Pace yourself so you won’t have to rest every couple of switchbacks. Otherwise expect to be a sweaty mess as you reach the top. Two thirds of the way up you’ll reach a saddle in the ridge which is flat and perfect for photos. Just don’t stop for long! From the saddle you’re about ten minutes of hiking from the top, done with switchbacks, and only have a short steep hill remaining. Reaching the top is unforgettable! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/043000a3-5560-4ff0-9e51-775a31c68f5f/A7400894.jpg BLOG - A Guide on Hiking the Schäfler Ridge - The first is to continue following the road you’re on heading west. It’s paved all the way to Seealpsee and is a very direct route. You won’t feel like you’re hiking deep in nature, but you’ll be an efficient hiker with more time at the lake. You’ll also quickly discover that whomever classified this road trail as “medium difficult” is a liar. It is very steep! The steep sections aren’t long but I promise you’ll feel them. You’ll also find that there isn’t much sun protection on the road. Along the way you’ll also have access to intersecting trails that climb the Schäfler mountains. Feel free to explore, but stick to the road if you’re just trying to reach Seealpsee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/9fb48302-5800-4f05-a271-d2ae41f4004f/20230909_071932.jpg BLOG - A Guide on Hiking the Schäfler Ridge - You either climb up and stay on the mountain or visit from a town nearby. Appenzell is a postcard perfect town and closest to the mountain but costs a premium to stay in. Plus cowbells may keep you awake. Alternatively, reaching Berggasthaus Schäfler gives you access to their cheaper dorm rooms with a restaurant and bar. We chose the latter. Hiking up a mountain carrying literally everything you own sounded miserable so we still had to solve our second issue. We discovered that the Ebenalp cable car station at the base of Schäfler actually holds luggage for those going up Schäfler. Weight dropped! Now that we had our night’s stay and luggage sorted out we could hike! Here’s how we reached the alpine lake Seealpsee, the top of Schäfler, plus and our hiking tips. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/travel-in-zurich monthly 0.5 2023-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/eae5df12-e12e-4e3f-bab1-3fc9f76aa116/A7400864.jpg BLOG - Travel In Zurich - We thought something was wrong with it. She and a passenger got out to help a homeless man cross the street and help him to a bench. After making sure he was okay they both returned to the bus and we were on our way as if nothing had happened. Ask yourself if you could see the average American being as helpful or engaged with a struggling stranger. By the way, that was one of only two homeless people we saw after almost three weeks in Switzerland. A country like Switzerland with such a crazy high standard of living doing so well for their citizens sent us into conversation. Why can’t our home country help mitigate poverty in a similar way despite more wealth, more land, and lower costs of living? To be determined, but Zürich, you have mighty fine folks on your streets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/1697487079506-MTC0NFRG2WUKDW3XDJX0/A7400870_Zurich+River+View.jpg BLOG - Travel In Zurich - Zürich wasn’t our first choice. We almost ended up in Monaco just to say we’ve been to Monaco. Geneva was high on our list for relaxing lake days. Our friends voted that we should visit Paris so we explored options for that long train ride. Thankfully we decided not to and dodged that bed bug outbreak! We chose Zürich for three reasons: It was nearby, we planned to visit the city a bit later anyway, and Chandni has an old friend there, David. He’s really the MVP of our first time in Switzerland. We were treated to spectacular alpine views of southern Switzerland as we took a train from Como to Lugano and then to Zürich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/873c8b46-408d-4379-8998-eb4c58159cca/20230908_081241_.jpg BLOG - Travel In Zurich - The city’s free succulent garden (one of largest in the world) was blossoming and full of plant info QR coded into English. Even the cashiers at every corner grocery store spoke English making shopping for our meals as easy as running to HEB. Too many times we hear about people unsure of traveling due to a language barrier. If a country like Switzerland, where English is the fourth most printed language after German, French, and Italian, can make it easy for an English speaker to travel, you have nothing to worry about. The only thing we didn’t find appealing about the city was the food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/9315b381-e6ac-4ce4-8058-dafae040fd84/20230908_122939.jpg BLOG - Travel In Zurich - David and Jasmine prepared a raclette meal, where you heat raclette cheese on a small table top stove to the point of melting. You then scrape off the warm cheese and serve on top of or with potatoes, bread, and any kind of sauce and spice combos you’d like. They added a bottle of local Staatskellerei Zürich white wine. That was a perfect meal of food, friends, and fun. So while we went into Zürich excited to visit friends, we left feeling like we could comfortably live there. The city isn’t a tourist trap making it a much more genuine experience. The train and trolley system are extremely punctual. The people are amazingly caring. Poverty was almost nowhere to be found despite the very high cost of living. The way the city felt was welcoming, and that set the tone for the rest of our travels through Switzerland. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/guide-to-swiss-travel-pass monthly 0.5 2023-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/ef0f237a-a8e6-4644-a3bb-e372fa982802/20230909_141111_.jpg BLOG - Guide To Swiss Travel Passes - Ultimately, I picked the 1-month GA Pass for the flexibility of being able to stay in Switzerland for longer if we wanted, and not feeling guilted into visiting museums we otherwise wouldn't have visited. I had a horrible experience in Vietnam several years ago where I bought my museum tickets in advance, and out of principle, I went to all 4 even though I normally wouldn't have. The 3rd and 4th ones ended up in the middle of the countryside, with no way for me to get home so I walked along the side of a highway for a while until asking a family if I could hitch a ride back to town. I'll be buying my museum tickets one at a time from now on. This travel pass was the best thing we bought. We took FULL advantage! The ease of not having to buy a ticket every time we got on a train. The convenience of taking the fastest route when we typically buy slower & cheaper train tickets. It made traveling less stressful, and we knew we could always take the next train if we missed the first one. If you're staying for more than 2 weeks, and plan to spend most of your time outdoors and not visiting a ton of museums, check out the 1-month GA Pass here! https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/travel-italy-on-a-budget monthly 0.5 2023-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/66178cb1-1ee6-4678-8668-a2edc8fb9475/Italy+Travel+Budget.png BLOG - Travel Italy On A Budget - Chandni and I want to be open about our spending by recapping each country we visit with a spending discussion. For each country, we may highlight a financial success or two, but more importantly, we want to discuss how we could have been more financially efficient travelers. We hope that future travelers will learn from our self-critique and find value in our mistakes. Our first financial recap is for two weeks of travel through delicious Italy! Our spending covers travel in Rome, Cinque Terre, Parma, Modena, and Milan. We met our financial goals for travel through Italy! We aimed to spend under $161/day and spent only $129/day. That amounts to just over $2,000 each for two weeks. Our costs include everything from our flight to Rome, all hotel costs, every bite of food, and all bus tickets bought. Two huge outliers are the costs of Osteria Francescana and my birthday celebration at the bar Drink Kong. Removing those luxury expenses reduces the cost per person to about $1,600, or $100/day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/31fb8b16-ac2c-4f7c-aeab-0b6b8088343c/20230901_101925.jpg BLOG - Travel Italy On A Budget - Many of our friends were certain that we’d be in hostels throughout Europe. Turns out we didn’t book a one in Italy! Hostels are a fantastic way to budget travel solo, but we were traveling together. Splitting the cost of a budget hotel room was cheaper than buying two hostel beds. The $722 we each spent on hotels could have likely been lowered. However, $722 is $45/night which is the average price of hostel dorm beds I found in Rome and Milan during peak season. Not a bad deal for your own place! Opting for hotel rooms also added security, but we did lose access to a kitchen…sometimes. That leads me to our new favorite concept – renting apartments in hotel listings, and NOT from AirBnb or Vrbo. We stayed in our first apartment in Modena which we found on Agoda. This is a huge difference because AirBnb or Vrbo tend to add hidden fees, while apartments on Agoda or Expedia have been fee free minus city taxes. Staying in apartments allows us cook groceries while keeping hotel room comforts. Cooking and not eating out helped keep our average meal cost down to only $6.84, assuming three meals a day and excluding our Osteria Francescana splurge. Fast-food value menus barely feed you that cheaply anymore! Grocery shopping is the best! However, we’ve also unknowingly wasted plenty of money during our Italian travels. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/travel-to-milan monthly 0.5 2023-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/9ed5b3da-eecb-4cab-8b06-3ba7a598bb2a/A7400495.jpg BLOG - Travel to Milano No No - We spent the rest of the day at the Leonardo Technology Museum, where we learned about every form of technology ever invented. Didn't realize there was such a thing as too much information in a museum, but there is, and we found it. Well worth the entry cost, but probably okay to skip. Grabbed a drink at Camparino in Galleria, currently the #72 best bar in the world. Each of the menu drinks was fun and funky! And Michael's standard order, his Sazerac, was one of the best we've ever had. For dinner, both officially over the pizza vibes of Milan, we went to Gastronomia Yamamoto for some Japanese Italian fusion food. Highly recommend! It was fresh and clean and we will be looking for more Asian food tomorrow for sure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/0feb1c62-2d2e-4ad3-a653-c95fda2a3414/A7400509.jpg BLOG - Travel to Milano No No - Day 4: We booked a 9am entry tour for the Milan Duomo with access to walk up to the terraces. We highly recommend that option, you get up close and personal with the Duomo in a way that's really special. We spent the morning and early afternoon taking in the world's 3rd largest church and attached museum. Make sure you visit both! The museum is where the original pieces of the facade are housed. After our standard afternoon shower & siesta, we made our way to the south side of town where they have their own version of a river walk! Honestly, it's hard to window shop and go browsing through shops and stalls when we know everything we buy, we'll have to carry on our backs for another 2.5 months. After looking longingly at some dresses, we arrived at dinner, Li-sei Deli. This time Korean food, but just as wonderful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/3111f25d-4c76-4f56-9c36-2e42db26c91e/A7400493.jpg BLOG - Travel to Milano No No - Lake Como was our favorite part of visiting Milan - we made an Instagram post all about our day, prices, ferry and train options! The weather was excellent, the views were amazing, and our 3 hour ferry ride down Lake Como was full of colorful towns and the phrase "how did they build that??" at least half a dozen times. For dinner we grabbed pizza at Berbere. This was when I formally decided that Milan doesn't believe in pizza the same way Rome and Florence do. The cheese and sauce combo reminded me of Cici's, while the crust was still far superior. So far, the food scene in Milan is leaving something to be desired. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/4637eb31-f4bd-456a-8f87-c0c56ed7f4de/20230827_090812.jpg BLOG - Travel to Milano No No - Day 0: Our journey to Milan was not a pleasant experience. We went from Manarola to La Spezia, to Parma, and finally to Milan. The 2-hour train ride from Parma to Milan was the most crowded form of public transportation we've ever been on. Not sure if Trenitalia oversold the journey, but every single car was stuffed with people and luggage similar to this. Next time, we won't be going to a city with a major airport on a Sunday afternoon. Tired and stiff, we had to take out our travel annoyances on a pizza! We grabbed a quick dinner at Spontini and were surprised at how different the pizza here was than in Rome. A thicker crust, still good, but different. You'll only need one slice here, the servings are generous. We ordered two each and both had that extra stuffed feeling that’s not always great. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/cfa8b865-7313-4353-9a48-fb7f72534805/20230828_083421.jpg BLOG - Travel to Milano No No - Day 1: We arrived to a weather forecast of rain for the next 5 days, with the sunniest day being Tuesday. Excellent. We decided to use our best weather day to explore Lake Como and spent our first full day exploring the city. This is the first destination on our trip that is new to both of us, so we took the morning to wander the streets, take in the shops, use our €7.60, 24-hour metro pass the most we could. We grabbed lunch at Zia Esterina Sorbollo, where they fry pizza into a cone in front of you for added pizzazz! We wandered the shopping district called the Golden Triangle over the afternoon and grabbed gelato at Pave. They used all natural ingredients making it extra delicious. The rain hit right around this time, so we tried to hide in the metro while we went back to the train station for dinner at the Central Market. There are lots of stalls to choose from, so we shared a cacio e pepe pasta dish & our first risotto. Both were fine, but we wouldn't be returning. For the prices, you can get better tasting food elsewhere. Day 2: Off to Lake Como! Staying in the small towns here can be expensive, so we made a day trip out of it. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/travel-in-parma-and-modena monthly 0.5 2023-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/a5d83088-d7d5-4e40-90f3-af64bce800e8/A7400627.jpg BLOG - Tasty Travel In Parma and Modena - While we were learning, we were smelling. The saltwater bathroom smelled terrible, but the aging room smelled magical! Towers of cheese wheels radiate a perfect smell even through the warehouse doors. The only thing better than the smell is the taste. Sampling fresh cut 12-, 24-, and 36-month aged parm is a food experience you can’t forget. They have a certain internal crunch you don’t find in the states. The oils of the cheese add a slight sheen. They’re perfect cheese when fresh. Balsamic vinegar and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese are Italian kitchen staples, but Osteria Francescana is the iconic modern Italian restaurant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/43489133-8df3-415d-9781-e9c5de2b9817/20230901_082911.jpg BLOG - Tasty Travel In Parma and Modena - Our first goal was to visit a balsamic vinegar producer. The tour we found was the best €6 we spent yet! We were welcomed into Acetaia Gambigliani Zoccoli in the Modena countryside not understanding how incredibly important the estate is to the balsamic world. They’ve made traditional balsamic since 1732 and produce 20% of the world’s traditional balsamic vinegar. The estate’s owner is a direct descendant of the original founder and the current president of The Consortium of Traditional Balsamic Vinegar of Modena. We were among balsamic royalty, and I showed up to just lick vinegar off a tiny spoon. The best craftspeople, museums, and tours get you genuinely excited about their subjects. The Acetia’s tour was a perfect example, starting with a lecture that defined balsamic vinegar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/81c99ec9-3284-4424-97d5-02b608cc503d/20230901_083354.jpg BLOG - Tasty Travel In Parma and Modena - While typical grocers usually stock the more common IGP designated balsamics that have few regulations, traditional DOP designated balsamics, like those produced by the Gambigliani family, have very strict production rules.Their ingredients must come from Modena or nearby Reggio Emilia, and only two types of grapes may be used. Each traditional balsamic is sold in the same bulbous shaped bottle so you’ll know you’ve found one. These balsamics age a minimum of 12 years before bottling, with longer aging lasting 25 years. The aging room in the attic where they sit is the best smelling room I’ve ever entered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/ead4a805-e14c-4dc4-951e-0238eaac3592/A7400615.jpg BLOG - Tasty Travel In Parma and Modena - We chose an experience with Caseificio Ugolotti in Parma because they offer cheap tours, have a specialty grocery store attached, and are an established small producer. All things that we love! However, staying in Modena and not Parma meant a forty-minute train ride, a twenty-minute bus ride, and then a walk to the factory. We woke up early to make that 9 am tour and see cheese being made. It was worth all our efforts! As with the vinegar tour, a starting lecture defined what parm is and isn’t. Every step in making a parm cheese wheel is religiously controlled, right down to what the cows are allowed to eat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/1746854a-c9b1-49d6-8eb7-877af59ea3e3/A7400621.jpg BLOG - Tasty Travel In Parma and Modena - A little Italian man with a tiny hammer comes a rap tap tapping on each cheese wheel. Each tap must sound identical or else he grades the cheese wheel lower since different noises mean imperfections. Grade 1 is great parm. Grade 2 is okay parm but gets its rind slashed to identify it as lower quality. Grade 3 parm is considered so poor that they literally strip the rind off the cheese and aren’t allowed to sell it as parm! That’s how we get generic Italian white cheese. Please note, I don’t know if it's a little Italian man that comes rap tapping. That image is just fun to picture for me because the cheese makers look like Italian Vikings. But there is a tiny hammer, I promise. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/reservations-at-osteria-francescana monthly 0.5 2023-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/201bfdf9-2960-47f5-ad6c-827300a93d5e/Francescana+Openings.jpg BLOG - Dinner at Osteria Francescana - If you don’t get a reservation when they become available, check as the day you’re interested in approaches. See those green dots on some dates in the photo? Those are open tables thanks to people cancelling. Tables can open up last minute. You must disclose that you’re a vegetarian at the time of booking or far in advance of your reservation. If you don’t, you may not be able to order the delicious vegetarian tasting menu. Upon arrival a waiter will ask you if you want to order the tasting course menu or a la carte. A la carte has many items not featured in the tasting menu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/73dd9389-47fa-480d-a297-f3b8883c13e1/20230903_135848_Crop.jpg BLOG - Dinner at Osteria Francescana - When 2:59 rolled around I promised not to let go of the mouse until I selected a date. I was sure that if I just OH MY GOD IT’S 3 A.M.! The screen flashed, the calendar’s formatting changed, I got distracted by the rearrangement, and then literally two seconds later every date had been selected. Every September date was fully chosen. I had missed… Staying up felt like such a waste until I remembered that people only had 10 minutes to complete their booking. So I waited. At 3:10 I watched what felt like digital whack-a-mole on their reservation calendar. Dates popped up in half second bursts from people that didn’t finish their booking. I couldn’t keep chasing flashing dates so I decided to do what every gamer has done at some point – I spammed the mouse! I kept clicking on September 4th at dinner because I noticed every date before had already flashed back. Sure enough, within ten seconds I had a confirmed selection! I filled in the info and we had our reservations! But what if I could get a better day ten minutes later…? There were no cancellation fees mentioned so I tried. I waited ten minutes and did the exact same thing. I started spamming the mouse on September 3rd at dinner hoping that option would open. Using the same technique I got the same result – a confirmed reservation a few minutes later! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/be000f16-a4ea-4bf1-a6ce-0b8bcde34205/20230903_153918_.jpg BLOG - Dinner at Osteria Francescana - The champagne aperitif costs €30 a glass. They didn’t mention the price when they asked if we would like one, and we should have asked. The breadsticks are “free” with dinner so feel free to eat as many as you’d like because they offer fresh ones. Expect your dining experience to run three hours. Remember we dined in September 2023 so all prices and booking procedures could have changed by the time you read this. Chef Massimo is super nice and was happy to take a photo with us and shake my hand. We had a brief but fun conversation as he made his way around each table. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/90c3dd9a-1fb8-4cc8-88d2-0bf7b96ce8ef/20230903_164516_.jpg BLOG - Dinner at Osteria Francescana - Note that reservations for Maria Luigia are made through their website (linked on Francescana’s reservation page). Remember, this is a bed and breakfast so you are expected to pay for a room. Before you balk at their €800 room price, remember you’re reading a post teaching you how to buy a €325 meal! Reservations for the original location open six months ahead of time. However, they open booking for the entire month at once. For example, on October 2nd you can book a table for lunch or dinner on any day in April 2024 assuming they aren’t closed. Chances are that the day reservations open are the only day they’ll be available. That means you need to glue yourself to a computer and be ready to pick a day when they open at 10 a.m…central Italian time. That time change tricks some people! Unfortunately for us Americans, 10 in the morning in Italy is 3 in the morning US central standard time. You either need to stay awake all night, or wake up earlier than you probably ever wanted to because by breakfast time all their reservations will be filled. I know this from my experience. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/traveling-to-cinque-terre monthly 0.5 2023-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/0c0e3578-c162-49f9-ad56-394bb04ba621/20230826_060327_.jpg BLOG - Traveling to Cinque Terre - Monterroso al Mare is the largest town and divided in two by a large cliff that must be crossed via a tunnel. Both sides of town have large private and public beaches, and everyone we spoke to agreed that the best beaches were here. The food in town was especially notable. A shout out goes to Pasticceria Bar Laura which created a Monterossina. That perfect fruity chocolate pie slice is as good as any pastry we’ve had. Some of Italy’s best gelato is served in Gelateria La Scogliera which scoops perfect dark chocolate and stracciatella flavors. You’re staying here for the many beaches, extensive food and drink options, and coastal hiking to Vernazza. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/25159711-c212-4aa9-b6d6-7025969a15e8/A7400328_Vernazza+Overlook_Dark_v2.jpg BLOG - Traveling to Cinque Terre - Vernazza is the most famous of the five towns. Nice pebble beaches, many dining options, and killer views easily create a great time. Our favorite pesto in Cinque Terre is found at Pippo a Vernazza towards the back of town. Many coastal boating trips begin in the harbor. A hike above town towards Corniglia is very steep but has our personal favorite view in Cinque Terre. Even during a peak season weekend, only a few folks took advantage of sunset from this point. In summary you should stay here if you’re outdoors oriented but also want access to popular amenities. Just expect a busy town in peak season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/ba14f0ff-1af2-42d6-90f3-1fd02e29ee59/2+-+DSC01131_V2.jpg BLOG - Traveling to Cinque Terre - Manarola is an Instagrammer’s dream as the colorful city is perched perfectly over a harbor. An uphill trail wraps around the harbor away from town to the restaurant Nessun Dorma. They’re famous for pesto recipes and classes, along with some of Cinque Terre’s best views. That also likely makes Manarola your best option to watch sunset. Views aside, there are no great swimming options here. Your best outdoor option is to hike to Riomaggiore along Lover’s Lane. You should mostly stay here for the scenery and easy access to Lover’s Lane once it reopens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/8c827901-0039-49eb-8c85-3aeccbeefbb8/2+-+DSC01026_V2.jpg BLOG - Traveling to Cinque Terre - Riomaggiore may not sport as many scenic views as the other towns, but it has tons of charm and excellent outdoor options. You can swim in the pebble beach, walk above town to the castle, or take the Lover’s Lane walk along the seaside cliffs to Manarola. The trail was closed when we visited, but it’s scheduled to reopen in summer 2024. We want to return to complete a hike between towns! One of our favorite Cinque Terre restaurants Rio Bistrot is located near the town’s harbor and serves modern takes on simple classics at a great price. Riomaggiore really has a little of everything. You should stay here for outdoor variety and a slightly quieter time. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/when-in-rome monthly 0.5 2023-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/23590e68-b8d4-4243-97a5-10ede99f239f/DSC01398.jpg BLOG - When In Rome - We visited the Vatican last year but didn’t fully explore St. Peter’s Basilica. Our recent Half Dome hike more than prepared us for the over 600 steps to reach the top. The view from the top of St. Peter’s was incredible! You could see all of Rome and the surrounding mountains thanks to the clear day. Our climb was helped by the unexpected pastry cafe on top of the Vatican. You read that right. You can buy ice cream and croissants on the roof of St. Peter’s! They must be meant to answer your prayers on a hot day. Among other unexpected Vatican encounters, there’s a somewhat hidden gift shop on the right side of the Basilica (facing it) that you’ll pass leaving the Papal tombs. Prices at this gift shop are all cheaper than at others inside the Vatican. This includes cheaper holy water for sale. Perhaps this cheaper shop carries store brand holy water and the other shops carry JC brand holy water. No Vatican visit would be complete without art appreciation. Bernini is my favorite sculptor so getting to view his creation of St. Peter’s Square, his canopy (a baldachin) over the tomb of St. Peter, and Michelangelo La Pieta in one place is a treat. Photographs never do them justice. There is a huge sense of scale standing in the plaza or looking up at the baldachin which words or photographs can’t replicate. Unfortunately, they needed to install a reinforced glass wall in front of the La Pieta thanks to Mr. Crazy smashing it up a while back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/6f32b5dd-35d8-46ae-91b8-d971bc13f7c2/20230823_140516.jpg BLOG - When In Rome - Our Roman holiday was a perfect mix of pizza, pasta, gelato, and unfortunately, sweat. The moment we left the airport the heat set in and the sweat came out. Walking to the train leaving the airport? Sweat. Running to our first bus (which we missed) from the train station? Sweat. Broken air conditioner in our room? Evil indoor sweat! Gelato only cools you down so long before it turns on you and makes you a chunky traveler. So we tried a different internal coolant – ice cold cocktails day one! Freni e Frizioni is a well loved bar that opened a second location in the Pratti district near our hotel. This new location called Freni e Frizioni Draft is a concept bar serving cocktails on tap along with pizza from an up and coming pizza maker. We arrived into Rome at night so we thought this would be a perfect easy start. We were blown away! Perfect margherita and diavola pizzas paired with excellent cocktails made us return for another meal a few days later. Everything on the menu being crazy cheap helped, too. Freni’s pizza also beats the yeast out of the world renowned Bonci Pizzarium which we have eaten at twice and found overrated each time. Waddling home from pizza and drinks, we decided the Vatican should be the first stop on our first full day traveling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/e65f4067-2c8c-40f8-ae94-6fa126b67ea8/A7400252_Sant%27Angelo+Bridge.jpg BLOG - When In Rome - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/fdb45d90-19ea-49fe-8f27-bb387bc0ed05/20230824_133018_.jpg BLOG - When In Rome - In between all that we ate, drank, and ate some more. We managed to eat the original fettuccine Alfredo at Alfredo alla Scrofa - the restaurant that invented it. The dish is sooooo much better without milk or heavy cream, plus the freshly made fettuccine is as delicate as any we’ve had. We also returned to our favorite overall pasta maker Roscioli Salumeria con Cucina. They’re a bakery and pasta house meaning they feed you only the finest carbs in Rome. Nothing beats their cacio e pepe, and nothing beats a follow up to them like gelato. Cremilla really hit the spot thanks to a perfect cup of dark chocolate and stracciatella (vanilla ice cream with chocolate shavings of different sizes). By this time our air conditioner was fixed so we ate gelato because it's gelato instead of because we were oozing sweat all day. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/saving-for-long-term-travel-v2 monthly 0.5 2023-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/9bf00c8c-6fe4-4793-b8ca-783e5f9ee564/230804+Savings+for+Long+Term+Travel+-+2019+Note.jpg BLOG - Saving for Long Term Travel v2.0 - 6. Monthly Check Ins - the first of each month, we update our net worth excel sheets and recalculate our future projections given present values. We make sure our accounts don’t vary widely from the last month, we discuss large upcoming spending events, new financial law or concepts, and we ensure we're saving enough now to cover major future expenses. It's a way to make sure we're honoring ourselves and each other by providing a place for open communication to check that we're working towards the same goal: to live a life that's meaningful to us. And that's my basic summary! Lots of math and many Excel sheets go into our future projections, but most of it boils down to investing as much as we can, as early as we can, and minimizing fees as much as we can. I’m probably too open when it comes to finance, but my world absolutely changed when someone told me I didn't have to work for the rest of my life and then gave me the steps to get there. I hope this is meaningful to some of you, and you've learned a new concept or two. Just like before, please reach out with questions! I'd love to hear your thoughts and maybe find FI friends along the way. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/packing-for-travel monthly 0.5 2023-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/63d4e180-17ab-4ccb-8ea6-7a8cb94099b4/MDB+Packing.jpg BLOG - Packing for Long Term Travel - The photography gear is all luxury and unnecessary. However, it’s my creative outlet that I’m willing to carry around. We have a Gollum and the ring relationship. I was going to bring a backup camera body but decided against it after weighing. The laptop is my single heaviest item even though it’s light compared to other laptops. However, working on this blog, email, and doing hotel/hostel coordination is sooooo much faster on it, so it’s worth the weight. I’m overall happy with my gear selection but unhappy with the weight. Nearly 10 lbs of clothing was a surprise that may be reduced on future sections. Remaining gear is necessary except maybe the soaps and shampoo. We are regularly given small bottles of each, but the moment they’re not provided we will absolutely be wishing we had them! See below for many packing details: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/1bf09f5a-b21c-42ff-8c3b-8f74485bf460/Linda+stuff.jpg BLOG - Packing for Long Term Travel - The other part of me is really excited to learn to live with what I have and become more adaptable. On a previous trip I took to Thailand, I really learned how to improvise and work with what I had. I miss that version of myself, so I put enough thought into my packing to make sure I had clothes for 80% of the days, and if I have to suffer or buy something along the way, it’s all a part of the journey. Also I have no idea how much things weigh. My packed backpack was 22 pounds when we weighed it at the airport kiosk. My goal was 15 pounds, so I could carry 2 liters of water and be around 20 pounds total, so I didn’t reach that goal. But I did pack a decent amount of snacks, soaps and shampoos which should ideally be reducing in weight. https://www.mbartonphotography.com/barton-outbound-blog/saving-for-long-term-travel monthly 0.5 2023-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/9bf00c8c-6fe4-4793-b8ca-783e5f9ee564/230804+Savings+for+Long+Term+Travel+-+2019+Note.jpg BLOG - Saving for Long Term Travel - I landed my first job outside of college in San Antonio, at the same place Michael works at :) Actually, across the cubicle from where Michael used to sit. We’ve worked hard and long hours, but have always remembered that we are more than our jobs, and have never forgotten why we work: to live a life that’s meaningful to us. In 2017, he refused to hang out with me until I set up a 401k and IRA. I had 2 friends in the city at that point, so I pouted a little, then set up automatic payments and moved on with my life. Will forever be grateful that he was looking out for me before I even knew what to be looking out for. In 2019, I discovered a podcast called Dough Roller by Rob Berger. His shows introduced me to the concept of F.I.R.E. (financial independence, retire early), something that seemed like it was invented purely for me and my soul. 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The best parts of growing up happened outside. Between camping, hiking, sports, and scouts, if it involved the outdoors, I was excited! Even when indoors, I’d glue myself to the Travel and History Channels to pretend that was me scaling Patagonian peaks or exploring ancient Rome. I didn’t realize it then but that’s how my travel cravings began. In 2009 just after high school graduation, my friends and I took a road trip through ten national parks. The entire trip was captured on a tiny Olympus Stylus. That’s when I knew I had to travel as much as possible while photographing it all. However, that mindset warmed the bench between the years of college and a demanding career. Weekend trips happened, but for a kid dreaming of Nat Geo assignments, growing up to work in a cubicle was a bummer. Then I bought a Sony a6000 in 2015. I already aimed to visit every national park, but now I had to photograph them as well. I began traveling further and longer. Photography became a reason to explore deeper on every trip. In August of 2023 I upgraded to a Sony A7IV and began traveling the world with my girl friend, Chandni Patel. Every city, town, person, and park is unique. That makes anything and everything my photography subject. I don’t shoot just to share my story. I shoot hoping you’ll be inspired to go discover a story of your own. So if you are ready to see my story, please click here to visit my photography portfolio or click here to read my ongoing travel blog. Follow along with Chandni and I to share the world through my lens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182015496aef4691526384c/da007da1-3cc7-43ce-a927-a6dcb9ad4a66/Michael+Barton+On+Location.jpeg ABOUT - Outside of Photography I was born in Dallas, graduated from UT Austin, and became a civil engineer in San Antonio, TX. That path introduced me to wonderful people and cultures across Texas. 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