A Family Exploring the Worlds of Fandom Together
Welcome to our Traveling archives—where adventure meets nerd culture!
While Nola Nerd Couple began as CookTravelEat, exploring the world is still at the heart of what we do. We share our family’s journeys, from epic European adventures to local road trips, all with a nerdy twist.
Here you’ll find:
Whether you’re planning your own adventure or just love reading about travel, join us as we explore the world—one nerdy destination at a time!
On September 11, we traveled down to Lockport to run a 5K Fun Run to help with Cancer Awareness. The only problem was that Mrs. Nola Nerd Couple woke up sick that morning. However, we were going to complete the 5K no matter what. Walking to raise cancer awareness is…
Prague, A Favorite city If Florence was our favorite city from our Europe 2010 trip, Prague is a very close second. Unfortunately because of our long train day (never schedule Innsbruck then Prague unless you can book a sleeper car) we only got to spend one day in this lovely…
Because I’m a great husband and also because I’m the best brother ever, I recently accompanied my wife, sister, and sister-in-law to Lafayette for the NKOTBSB concert. I had one condition for the torture that would befall my ears in form of young girls and older women shrieking: a shrimp…
There are very few reasons an American would ever go to Sulmona, Italy, unless you are George Clooney and you are making a movie called The American. Very few people in this town can speak English…actually only those that have gone to college recently. It’s a modest size town with…
Our second full day in Florence was a museum day specifically dealing with the Accademia and the Uffizi. We hadn’t planned on going to either one and the lines are terribly long to get into both of them. I convinced Cristina we needed to find tickets by any means necessary.…
Saturday morning, I headed to the German Coast Farmer’s Market at the Ormond Plantation to get my vegetables for the week. I came home with some fresh green beans, sweet potatoes, broccoli, carrots and some spicy hog’s head cheese. All for better prices than I would have paid at Winn…
In my last post about our Europe trip, I mention the Eurorail pass. Unlike this country, rail is king in Europe. Failing at trying not to sound like a commericial, the Eurorail is the number one way to get around Europe. It is what made our grand tour of Europe…
The entrance to Disneyland Paris Wow, did we plan poorly when we decided to go to Disneyland Paris. We should have gone to Disneyland, then to Paris. To travel to our next destination, Zurich, we needed to leave from Paris. We set up to where we had to travel to…
We exited the Louvre with no plans. Our last afternoon in Paris and we didn’t have anything to do. Now, this was probably the best planning we had done. Paris wants you to walk aimlessly around. But first, we had to eat. We were famished. We stopped at an outdoor…