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Hello and welcome to 2023, a bit late, we admit. We’ve been on hiatus from the blog since we returned from Portugal to the United States just before the holidays. Our home-away-from-home base has been Andrea’s brother’s house in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where we spent the holidays and attempted to deal with the culture shock…

With so many places to visit, we always keep a small list of questions in mind that help guide our travels. Is there unique geography, wildlife or landscapes we might not find anywhere else? Is there an ancient history we can explore and experience? Is there a culture of food and drink in which we…

We made another crossing and journeyed into Seville, Spain from Lisbon to try and chase the sun. It is December, winter, and rainy. We haven’t been entirely successful. While we were sitting in the hotel in Seville waiting for the latest thunderstorm to pass so we could venture out, it gave us some time to…

We hate to get redundant with superlatives and overused adjectives, but the little village of Kastelruth we visited at the end of October after our time in Bolzano is yet another truly idyllic little town in a storybook landscape. We couldn’t help but be very jealous and wonder once again how these people were allowed…

Our first Italy post was about six weeks ago when we wrote about our entry into Napoli and our time there. Travel was rapid after that, with our path taking us to Sorrento, Rome, Florence, Pisa, Venice, and Verona. We visited a lot of sights filled with lots of people. The whole world was in…

Travel comes with its triumphs and trials. Especially when you’re on the road as long as we have been. Odds are you’re going to have some ups and downs. Remember quarantine? As I write this, we mark a total of nine months of travel, having started this journey on 15-February on a flight to Buenos…

A Most Unusual Day When locals tell you to go visit the national park nearby, you typically expect some type of nature/hiking experience. When the national park is an island, throw in sweeping coastal views and maybe some casual beach time. This is exactly what we were hoping to get out of our day at…

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…