MONTENEGRO | Saturday, 19 Nov 2011 | Views [855]
Some folks are awed by our travel experiences; months away from home, strange food, foreign languages, dodgy hotels. But we have run into fellow travelers who astonish even us! The single mom from England we met in Dunedin, NZ who was camping around ... Read more >
MONTENEGRO | Friday, 18 Nov 2011 | Views [1100]
As the crow – or the seagull flies – Italy isn’t far from
Montenegro. Kotor is much closer,
only 25 kilometers up the road from Budva, and is as Italian as can be. We didn’t climb the umpteen hundred
steps to the fortress but we did lose ... Read more >
MONTENEGRO | Thursday, 17 Nov 2011 | Views [854]
Montenegro is a small country. It took less than two hours to go from 1400 meters to sea level, from -6 degrees to shirtsleeves, from the browns of late autumn to trees full of ripe oranges. The Romans called this part of the world as Dalmatia and ... Read more >
MONTENEGRO | Wednesday, 16 Nov 2011 | Photo Gallery
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MONTENEGRO | Wednesday, 16 Nov 2011 | Views [832]
The train from Belgrade arrived in the dark in Podgorica, two hours late and our room in the 90 euro hotel was so small that we literally had to go outside to change our minds. So, on first blush, Montenegro wasn't our favorite Balkan country.... Read more >
SERBIA | Tuesday, 15 Nov 2011 | Views [806]
Travel is exciting. There are new places to visit, interesting people to meet, histories to learn and great art and architecture to see. We wouldn't trade this lifestyle for anything. But sometimes you yearn for something familiar. Take food, for ... Read more >
SERBIA | Monday, 14 Nov 2011 | Views [1700]
Sopocani Monastery was filled with the faithful on Sunday morning. It must have been a special service because the religious TV station was filming the service. Not much of the original monastery was left after the Turks, but it has been nicely rebuilt.... Read more >
SERBIA | Saturday, 12 Nov 2011 | Views [1098]
The hillsides are ablaze with the last of the fall colors and the ground is carpeted with birch leaves that glisten like millions of coppery coins. Driving through some truly spectacular scenery is one of the benefits of seeking out of the way ... Read more >
SERBIA | Friday, 11 Nov 2011 | Views [1833]
My face broke into a wide grin as I stood before the Martin Jonas painting of a man with huge hands and a tiny head. When Jelena suggested we visit the Gallery of Naive Art in Kovacica we thought she meant "native" not "naive."... Read more >
SERBIA | Thursday, 10 Nov 2011 | Views [2250]
The long arm of Antoni Gaudi's (remember him from Barcelona?) influence reaches all the way to Subotica near the Serbian border with Hungary. Its art deco buildings don't match those in Napier, New Zealand in number nor those in South Beach for glitz, ... Read more >
SERBIA | Wednesday, 9 Nov 2011 | Views [1299]
The rolling hills and winding roads of
Fruska Gora are a pleasant change from the featureless farmland north of
Belgrade. They also provide the perfect setting for Serbian Orthodox
Monasteries that date from the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries.... Read more >
SERBIA | Monday, 7 Nov 2011 | Views [1669]
Connie already had a plan for our first day in Belgrade, the capitol of the former Republic of Yugoslavia, but she kept it a secret. After we checked into an overpriced hostel less than a block from the Moskova Hotel, a really overpriced one, she ... Read more >
SERBIA | Monday, 7 Nov 2011 | Photo Gallery
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SERBIA | Sunday, 6 Nov 2011 | Views [949]
There aren't many attractive travel options from Bucharest to Belgrade. Flights on Austrian Air go through Vienna and cost a fortune. Sitting up all day on a bus wasn't very appealing either. So once again we opted for the overnight train. This ... Read more >
ROMANIA | Saturday, 5 Nov 2011 | Views [6992]
I hardly expect you to rush online to book your flight to
Bucharest, but you won’t be disappointed if you do. Here are ten reasons you might consider a Romanian holiday.
1.
Bucharest: "Little Paris" has art, architecture, ... Read more >
ROMANIA | Friday, 4 Nov 2011 | Views [907]
The Danube Delta, another UNESCO World Heritage site, is the largest wetland in Europe and t hanks to Connie's careful scheduling we were able to squeeze in a little birding. It is a popular place for wintering waterfowl although today felt almost ... Read more >
MOLDOVA | Wednesday, 2 Nov 2011 | Views [1300]
It was a long way to travel for just a stamp on our passports
and the trip back from Chisinau took even longer than the ride to Moldova. But we didn't have to suffer from the young woman with BO! Still, f ive bumpy hours is a long time to
spend ... Read more >
ROMANIA | Monday, 31 Oct 2011 | Views [1082]
The border between Transylvania and Moldovia is the most
striking place I have seen in Eastern Europe. I could almost see us living in the village of Piatra
Fantanele, a poor man’s Switzerland.
It even has a small ski resort.
The ... Read more >
ROMANIA | Sunday, 30 Oct 2011 | Views [911]
Connie says driving in Romania is like thumbing through a stack of National Geographic magazines: there is something interesting and unexpected on every page. Today was no exception.
In every village we passed people walking to church ... Read more >
ROMANIA | Friday, 28 Oct 2011 | Views [1096]
We couldn't have asked for a more perfect autumn day; sunny
skies and cool temperatures, great fall colors and wonderful places to
visit.
Bran Castle was the setting for Bram Stocker’s Dracula , despite the facts that Stocker
never ... Read more >
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