Unlike France and Italy – where the well-oiled train system made hopping about the country a breeze – it’s a little trickier to roam about the Balkans. The train system […]
Month: August 2021
Dubrovnik Beaches
❤️ = favorite In Dubrovnik (a town on the Adriatic Sea) we stayed at a really cute apartment that had a soccer field right below it. When we got off […]
The Pelješac Peninsula
The Pelješac Peninsula is a finger of land extending north of Dubrovnik, from the isthmus that begins at Ston to the top of Lovišta. The landmass stretches across the mouth […]
Split
As we were walking to the train station in Bassano del Grappa headed for the ferry port in Ancona my phone buzzed asking me if I’d made a purchase of […]
Brač
A visit to Croatia isn’t complete without some island hopping. The state-owned Jadrolinija ferries that connect all the Croatian islands to the mainland, as well as offering routes to and […]
Sunday in Brač
One day in Croatia we went on a ferry over to and island called Brač. It had beautiful turquoise water. We made sandwiches and had a cheesy bread thing (called […]
Bassano del Grappa
We stayed in a town near the Dolomites. There is lots of hiking in the Dolomites. We hiked in the Dolomites two times. The first time we hiked we walked […]
Hiking in the Dolomites
We hiked in the Dolomites Monday and Wednesday, but I am just going to talk about Monday. On Monday we left in the morning and drove out to the Dolomites […]
Bassano del Grappa and the Dolomites
Bassano del Grappa and Surrounds Bassano del Grappa is one of the walled cities originally built by the Venetians and afforded us an excellent base for a week to explore […]
Verona and Lake Garda
A visit to Veneto wouldn’t be complete without a trip to Verona to see where Romeo and Juliet declared their love for each other! Verona was an easy albeit expensive […]
Venice
Experiencing Venice firsthand gives one an idea of the immense wealth amassed by the Venetian traders in the thirteenth century, when Venice was the most prosperous city in all of […]
The Amalfi Coast
The Amalfi Coast is a collection of villages dotted along a beautiful stretch of coastline stretching from Salerno to Naples in central Italy. In June 1807 Giuseppe Bonaparte visited the […]