Category Europe

Our trek from Mérida, Mexico started on the last day of April and took us to the Portuguese island of Madeira via the airports of Mexico City, Paris, and Lisbon. The trip was long and the jet lag lingered for…

We flew from Malta to Porto, Portugal in mid November to connect with friends coming off of a river cruise. The four of us stayed in an Air BnB in the heart of Porto and explored the city and surrounding…

We flew from Athens to the small island nation of Malta in mid October, where we stayed for just over a month. Given that we had just moved 9 times in 7 weeks, we were ready to settle in a…

After six nights in Montenegro, we flew to Athens where we spent a week. We spent three days of that with some close family friends who were passing through enroute to join their cruise ship. We stayed in a hotel…

After a week in Dubrovnik, we hired a taxi service to take us the 100 km (65 miles) to Kotor, Montenegro, where we spent six nights in the first week of October. It cost about $130 more than taking a…

After a week in Zadar we took a bus and a ferry southeast along the Dalmatian coast to Dubrovnik, Croatia, where we stayed for a week. Dubrovnik’s nickname is “The Pearl of the Adriatic”, and it is an absolutely gorgeous…

In mid September we departed Split and went north up the Dalmation coast to the historical town of Zadar for about a week. It has an Old Town on a peninsula that is surrounded by ancient city walls. We liked…

We arrived in Split on September 1st and stayed for a little over two weeks. Split is the second largest city in Croatia (after Zagreb the capital) with about 160k residents. We walked everywhere around this very walkable city, visited…

We traveled from Venice, Italy to Split, Croatia via two trains and a bus over the course of three days. The first train was from Venice to Villach (Austria) aboard OBB Railjet, which took about three and half hours. We…