So far, in our journey, we had traveled to our destinations by air and by land: airplanes of varying sizes, buses, trains and rented cars. Until now, we had not yet traveled by sea. We purchased our Palermo, Italy to Tunis, Tunisia ferry tickets online a few weeks prior, through […]
CATANIA On our last day in Greece, we booked a room at the Avra Hotel, in Rafina. Although 17 Km from the Departures terminal, it is still considered an airport hotel, offering free shuttle service. With an early morning flight to Catania, Italy, the 6AM shuttle added some convenience to our travel. The […]
The Arrival After ten days in Athens, it was time to move on to our next Greek journey: the Peloponnese. We made our way by subway to the airport to pick up our rental car. Once all rental matters completed, we loaded the Ford Focus with our baggage and jetted for […]
Greece had not been on the ‘potentials’ list of destinations during the semi-planning of our journey; not for lack of interest, but because we considered it an easy destination that we would do in later years – we were focused on the more off-the-beaten-path countries. This sudden change of plans was a great decision, […]
Our arrival into downtown Bucharest on a beautiful, sunny (24ºC) Friday afternoon was as easy as the online descriptions had stated: an express bus from the airport’s arrivals gate to our stop, Piața Romana, then a 10-minute walk to the apartment we would call ‘home’ for the following two weeks. Once unpacked, it was time […]
Part of our journey is to participate in cooking classes that offer dishes from the visiting country. On October 5, the day before leaving Istanbul, we were fortunate to be able to attend our first class at the Istanbul Cooking School. Oguz (known to his friends as Oz or Ozzie) is part owner of […]
Istanbul was another unexpected landing point for us. Not unexpected because there was no desire to visit. We’d been wanting to come here for a long time; but, because of recent politics, we had temporarily removed it from our bucket list. So how did we land here? Trying to plan our next jump from […]
While in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we wanted to visit Mostar, a city famous for its UNESCO World Heritage, 15th-century bridge, that was blown up during the Bosnian War, then reconstructed. A trip to Mostar by train is only 2 hours and costs approximately $20 CAD for the two of us. However, […]
As our time in Dubrovnik was coming to an end, we had an ‘open schedule’ for a couple weeks, with no firm commitments. We discussed doing a multi-day, self-guided hike to the Dalmatian islands, but the logistics became a hindrance. We considered a bus ride down the coast to Bar, Montenegro. From […]
This part of our adventure landed us in Dubrovnik. There are not very many options for easy travel within Croatia (or much of the Balkans really). Buses are the main form of travel here, with train service much less frequent, and flights significantly more costly and often involving one or […]