ITALY | Monday, 19 Dec 2011 | Views [876]
The cabin on the ferry Marco
Polo wasn’t as plush as the one on the ship from the US to Spain, but we
got a good night’s sleep on the crossing from Split to Ancona, Italy. Our exile from the EU is over and we
will spend the next three months ... Read more >
CROATIA | Sunday, 18 Dec 2011 | Views [886]
We may have been snowed out at Plitvice National Park but Krka more than made up for it. The weather was fantastic, cold and clear, and we were the only visitors. You first notice the blue lakes as you drive down the twisting road. But when you reach ... Read more >
CROATIA | Saturday, 17 Dec 2011 | Views [854]
Knowing that we will not pass this way again and having a rental car at our disposal can lead to all sorts of adventures. Suddenly nothing seems too far away or too insignificant to visit. All of which explains why we drove 400+ kilometers up the ... Read more >
CROATIA | Wednesday, 14 Dec 2011 | Views [906]
Last night I finally found definitive information regarding the "Schengen clock." The question was does it give you 180-days after you first arrive or does it start after your 90-days in Schengen are up? According to travel guru Rick Steves ... Read more >
CROATIA | Monday, 12 Dec 2011 | Views [1347]
Pasko wouldn't let me out of his sight once he knew we were looking for an apartment. He followed me to each of the other places we were considering, lowering his price at each stop. The one Luci from Dubrovnik arranged didn't cut it - no internet ... Read more >
CROATIA | Thursday, 8 Dec 2011 | Views [955]
Dubrovnik is only a few hours from Mostar but in an entirely different world. The weather gets warmer, orange trees are ripe with fruit and the Adriatic is a lovely shade of blue. There are no bombed out hulks of buildings, although Dubrovnik had ... Read more >
CROATIA | Wednesday, 7 Dec 2011 | Photo Gallery
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BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA | Monday, 5 Dec 2011 | Views [918]
Imagine taking a two and a half hour bus ride to visit a town whose main attraction is a bridge; a bridge that, like most of the town, was destroyed in '94 and rebuilt in the 21st Century. Welcome to Mostar! The name "Mostar" means "... Read more >
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA | Sunday, 4 Dec 2011 | Views [1316]
It wasn't so long ago we listened as veteran news anchors tongue-tripped over "Herzegovina." It may also be the fist time I heard the term "ethnic cleansing." It was one of those wars in a place we knew nothing about, let alone ... Read more >
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA | Friday, 2 Dec 2011 | Views [880]
"There" would be Sarajevo, "here" meaning Pristina and "you" is us - Americans. Buses run daily from Pristina to Sarajevo via Novi Pasar, Serbia all the way to Sarajevo but we weren't allowed on. Americans traveling ... Read more >
KOSOVO | Thursday, 1 Dec 2011 | Views [3579]
When we asked our new friend Jelena, a Serb, why Kosovo was so important to Serbia she alluded to the Serbian Orthodox Churches there that are so much a part of Serbian history and are threatened by the ethnic Albanian Muslims. We spent the past ... Read more >
KOSOVO | Monday, 28 Nov 2011 | Views [1552]
Pristina looks like any other war-torn city a decade after the last battle. Much of it is under construction with the help of foreign aid money. Hotel Begolli, a Lonely Planet recommendation, is a nice place but in a part of town that feels like ... Read more >
KOSOVO | Monday, 28 Nov 2011 | Photo Gallery
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MACEDONIA | Sunday, 27 Nov 2011 | Views [1108]
Macedonia, the land of Philip of Macedon and his over-achieving son, Alexander, is like a warm sweater or a favorite pair of jeans. It just feels right. After Albania it's like stepping out of the black and white Kansas house into the technicolor ... Read more >
MACEDONIA | Friday, 25 Nov 2011 | Photo Gallery
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ALBANIA | Thursday, 24 Nov 2011 | Views [905]
It was a long, but not uncomfortable, 8-hour ride back to Tirana on Thanksgiving day, spent listening to podcasts and trying to ignore the two motion-sick women behind us. We were truly thankful when we reached Tirana. The guy who asked us "... Read more >
ALBANIA | Wednesday, 23 Nov 2011 | Views [1753]
We arrived in Saranda yesterday
after a six-hour trip from Berat in a cramped furgon . It wasn’t the
most scenic of rides. The roads
are terrible, bridges are worse and the roadsides are covered with trash. Litter was everywhere even ... Read more >
ALBANIA | Sunday, 20 Nov 2011 | Views [901]
Some
days nothing seems to go right but today things worked out perfectly. When we dropped the car off at the Podgorica airport I didn’t think we had a chance to make it into Albania today. But our taxi to the bus station arrived
just in time ... Read more >
ALBANIA | Sunday, 20 Nov 2011 | Photo Gallery
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