This is the smallest town we have stayed in during our time in Croatia and it was my favorite. It had the beautiful alleys, outside restaurants, and old buildings net to the super green clear waters. This time there wasn’t many tourists around when the cruise ships weren’t in which made it feel like we…

The 3 Big things that stuck out for me about our 3 days in Hvar was the beautiful views from our room, the beautiful views from the fort, and the beautiful views on our boat ride. So lots of pics in this blog and I hope it doesn’t get TLDR (Too Long Didn’t Read). We…

We have booked a lot of Airbnb’s on this trip with a focus on location… compared to size or amenities. This has led to some incredible experiences of actually living in the ancient walls of old towns but also being a little cramped. Our place in Split actually had 2 bathrooms but both of them…

We spent several hours at Plitvice Jezera National Park in Croatia today. 16 lakes connected by hundreds of waterfalls and it is one of the most awesome National Parks in Europe. We had great weather and because we are in “shoulder” season, the crowds weren’t nearly as bad. We hiked for 6 miles to see…

Because of the limited bus schedules we were forced to only stay 2 days in Ljubljana but that means we got 4 days in Rovinj instead of 3. This worked out well. We were anxious to get to the Adriatic Sea after spending a few weeks inland. M thought that this place reminded here of…

We had planned 3 nights in Slovenia after leaving the capitol of Croatia- Zagreb. Unfortunately, we are now in offseason bus and train schedules and we couldn’t get a bus or train to our next destination on Wednesday, so we would have to leave Tuesday and only have 2 nights in Ljubljana Slovenia. Our Train…

The day before leaving Budapest, I started not feeling so well. Just a little cold, but I needed to take it easy for a few days to get better. M also got it a couple of days later… But, we only had 3 nights in Zagreb so we were worried we wouldn’t get the total…

We are still getting used to the idea of slowing down our travel. We are used to doing 3-4 attractions in a day so we can say that we have “seen” a city in 2 or 3 days. We had 7 nights in Budapest so we changed that to 1-2 attractions in a day which…

I often laugh at stupid things that I see in other countries that just seem a little weird. I have started taking pics of some of those things and maybe sharing them here is a good idea… Or maybe not Yesterday we visited an underground hospital that was used to treat people during the siege…

Vienna is our first stop on our long fall Europe trip. We had a week here, so we were able to take our time seeing the sites and getting over jetlag. Usually, jetlag doesn’t bother me, but this time I had a hard time sleeping when I am supposed to be sleeping, and staying awake…

We have been in Vienna for a few days and I have a lot of pics to share but we aren’t done with Vienna yet. Yesterday we took a day trip to Bratislava and that needs to be shared now, even though my blog posting might be out of order. We took a 1 hour…

We have friends that often ask us how we are comfortable to be traveling internationally and doing all the planning by ourselves. We never use travel agents and generally don’t like group planned tours. M has done a couple of Rick Steves tours and she liked the social aspect of traveling with different people but…

M and I grew up in the suburbs and lived most of our adult lives in suburbs. We thought that was the thing to do. Raise kids in the suburbs was the expectation. Good schools, playing in the neighborhood, sports, scouts, and all the kids activities seemed like it was the way to go. But…

I haven’t written much lately because it feels like that we haven’t done much lately… but that isn’t true. We have done a lot. Maybe because we haven’t done anything cool or significant lately… but that isn’t true either. Looking through my phone I found a lot of cool pics so I can share those…

I have been wanting to try bike touring for years and we had a few open weeks this month so decided to give it a shot. I have done Seattle to Portland, and Seattle to Vancouver but both of those were just 2 day trips. M had no interest in being on a bike that…