A cold snap came to Bansko this week. Temperatures were in the single digits and low 20s. We know it is winter, but it feels especially cold because the temperatures here have been mild. This week we went to the Deska House for traditional Bulgarian food, music, and dancing. The three sisters are famous in Bulgaria. We had fun dressing…
We are settled into Bankso. We know our way around the town. We have a rhythm with skiing and worldschooling activities and meet-ups. It has been great being in one place for an extended period. The weather finally got cold. Average temperatures for the first few weeks were in the upper 30s and low 40s. Now we are consistently in…
Bankso hosted the FIS Snowboard World Cup while we were there. Michael saw a notice about volunteering, so he and I signed up. We got credentials and swag, including a waterproof jacket, neck warmer, sunglasses, and t-shirts. We engaged with the fans and watched a lot of the competition. It was interesting to be in the room during media interviews.…
Our time at the worldschooling hub in Bankso finally arrived. We have been planning and talking about it for months. We joined ArcticTerns in Bankso after hearing great things about the program from people who participated last year. Emmy Hermanos and her family have created worldschooling pop-ups and hubs in the Netherlands and Bulgaria. We moved from our Airbnb in…
Bansko, Bulgaria was never on our radar as a place to visit. A worldschooling community brought us here. When we first started traveling, we knew finding community would be important. We saw just how great it could be last year on the beach in Ecuador. Despite our worldschool hub hosts being horrible, we made lifelong friendships with the other families…
We traveled to Europe because of a worldschooling meet-up in Bulgaria. We planned our travels around the two-month event with 25 other families. The meet-up officially began in mid-January. We arrived in Bulgaria at the beginning of January. We took a flight from Rome to Sofia. It is less than two hours. The immigration process in Bulgaria is easy. The…
Our last stop in Italy was in Rome. We took a train from Florence and a bus to our Airbnb. Buses are crowded in Rome. You have to be ready to get off the bus, or you will get stuck on the bus like Michael, Melissa, and the kids. They had to get off at the following stop and walk…
The second stop on our Italian adventure was in Florence. We picked an Airbnb in the north of Florence. It is about a twenty-five-minute walk to the city center from our Airbnb. This Airbnb and the Airbnb in Venice do not have family rooms (living rooms). The places feel more like a hotel, but we understand that hosts are trying…
Our train pulled into Venice at 8:30 a.m. We all slept as well on the train as expected, but we were still tired. No rest for the weary because we could not check into our Airbnb until 3 p.m. We stored our luggage in Venice and went out to explore. We found two parks for Lucas and Henry to play…
Trains were our mode of transportation from Prague to Vienna. It is convenient how connected Europe is by train and how easy it is to navigate the train system. We had to switch trains in Breclav, a small town in the south of the Czech Republic. The whole trip was about 6 hours. We used an app called Bolt (similar…