Introduction!

Val and myself are embarking on another trip to Europe. We'll be spending all of July at Porolissum in Romania, but that's bookended by a three-night stay in Budapest, Hungary for sight-seeing, and then we have an extra five days or so after the excavation to explore the bits of Romania that we wanted to see last time, but didn't get to. At this moment, I'm still in Toronto, and will soon board a train for Ottawa where I'll stay a night. Then the next day, we'll head to Montreal and fly out from there. So, for myself, not taking my laptop to Ottawa, I will be on Internet-silence (shocking, I know.)

The flight (with a stopover in Paris) to Budapest occurs in the evening of June 24th. We'll arrive in Hungary on the 25th and as the hostel has Internet access, we'll update again from there.

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I hope this blog will make for some good vicarious living, and assuages fears as to our health, safety and well-being (I'm looking at you, Mom.) Please come back now and then!

I think I can speak for myself and Val when I say we are incredibly excited, and are just itching to be back on European soil. New adventures await!