Whether we had the all clear to enter the Czech Republic was a bit of a gray area and something we scratched our heads over for a little while when […]
Month: September 2021
Vienna
A train from Ljubljana to Villach, and then Villach to Vienna was the plan. The first train – from Ljubljana to Villach – was on a daily train that ran […]
Prater in Vienna
Amusement parks are fun. The first time we went there the rides that I did were bumper cars and a bungee trampoline. I did a few backflips on the trampoline, […]
Lipizzaner Horse Show 🏇🏻
On Sunday I woke up with so much excitement in my head because I new I was going to the Spanish Riding School to watch the Lipizzaner horses do their […]
Ljubljana
With only a few hundred thousand residents and 50,000 full-time university students, Slovenia’s capital of Ljubljana (pronounced LEW-blee-AH-na [took us a little getting used to as well…]) felt like more […]
Bohinj and Bled
The country of Slovenia is only about the size of the state of Massachusetts, so our base in Ljubljana provided an excellent launching point from which to explore some of […]
Lake Bled
We woke up Wednesday morning and got in the car to drive to Lake Bled. Lake Bled is a lake with an island in the middle that has a church […]
Hiking the Julian Alps
We went on a hike on Tuesday. It was very pretty with all the ferns, berries and moss. At the start of the hike there were cows with bells around […]
Zagreb
We certainly felt like we were rolling through the Iron Curtain as we entered Zagreb from the south: identical towering grey concrete skyscrapers of apartment buildings from the Cold War […]
Croatia
Croatia is a fun place. Some things I have noticed that’s different from California is the water is a lot clearer. There are a lot of fun beaches in Croatia. […]
Plitvice Lakes National Park
There are three things one cannot miss when walking around Split: advertisements for boat tours to the Blue Cave, billboards for day trips to Krka National Park, and photos of […]
Vis
It’s amazing how chance encounters can shape one’s journey through life. When we arrived in Split a couple of weeks ago we hopped into a Uber for the ride between […]