Month: October 2022

We started our tour of Croatia on 10-September with the obligatory visit to Zagreb. Not dissing Zagreb at all. It’s a nice city and we spent our time visiting some museums, seeing the sights, and enjoying a lot of beer and food. It was all good fun but not very photogenic or filled with stories….

So, we’re going back a few weeks with this post to the beginning of September 2023 to finish off sharing photos of Slovenia. We previously shared highlights from our road trip, but we didn’t include our couple of days on the coast. Slovenia has a very small presence on the Adriatic Sea, like 45k or…

During our two-week tour of Slovenia in early September, we tried to take full advantage of the unique geography and individual character of the different regions of the country. What we found was that there were two dominant features we’d visit again and again. Grad is the Slovenian word for castle, and jama is the…

Today, we officially started our ninth month on the road living out of suitcases and exploring the world. Nine times! We boarded a train from Rome to this wonderful Italian jewel of a city we’re in now. Rome was challenging. All of the tourist sites were crowded and lines were long. We’ll fill in the…

Our jump from Canada to Central Europe on 23-August and constant travel has left a few areas uncovered on our blog. Since we left Canada, we’ve been through Slovenia and Croatia and are now sitting in an apartment above the main tourist drag in Sorrento, Italy. Hard to believe almost two months have passed. Fortunately,…

We left Dubrovnik, Croatia via overnight ferry to Bari, Italy on 3-October and then caught a train to Napoli to begin our exploration of Italy. Napoli is a very real city. It is loud, grungy, filled with constant traffic and people everywhere–just what you’d want out of an Italian city. While Napoli has a bit…