We’ve been back home for almost a week and can’t believe how fast these six weeks flew by. We’re exhausted but at the same time feel we could have kept going longer. We had many surprises this summer and are glad to have put our preconceptions to the test, most (all?) of them were completely wrong. The two countries we were most concerned about visiting were Russia and Turkey but they turned out to be two of the best. Continue reading
Croatia
No Place Like Home
Categories: Albania, Asia, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Europe, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Mexico, Montenegro, North America, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, Turkey
Tags: backpacking, Eastern Europe, Family travel, Russia, Turkey
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Dubrovnik
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Categories: Croatia, Europe, UNESCO site
Tags: backpacking, Croatia, Dubrovnik, Europe, Family, Travel
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Zagreb and the Istrian Peninsula
We had two young women from Finland as our cabin mates on our train ride from Budapest to Croatia which made our trip lots more enjoyable.
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Categories: Croatia, Europe
Tags: backpacking, Croatia, Family, Ferry, Istrian Peninsula, Pula, Zadar, Zagreb
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Eastern Europe it is!
Our initial plan was to spend this summer in Southeast Asia. Our oldest is on a school trip to China for three weeks. We thought it would be fun to join him at the end and take it from there; however, the logistics of it turned into a nightmare. The more I tried to coordinate, the harder it seemed to get. I don’t believe in fate but I finally decided that this was proving too stressful to pursue. Continue reading
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Categories: Albania, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Europe, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey
Tags: Balkans, Croatia, Eastern Europe, Family travel, Istanbul, itinerary, Moscow, Russia, Turkey
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