The beginning of November and we pull into Verdun, a city known most for the battle of Verdun, the longest of all the battles of World War 1. This is a city...

After visiting family in Germany we made our way back into France. This was the end of October and perfect fall timing for us to schedule our five weeks of ...

We left Switzerland to head north to visit relatives from my mom’s side in Tettnang, Germany. Visiting Tettnang is always special for me, as it’s like going ...

After our family visit with my cousin and headed south instead of East, as Mark wanted to see Liechtenstein and I thought he should see a small part of Switz...

A nice part of the year long travel is knowing we will stop and see family/friends along the way and Munich was just that, a nice welcome after traveling aro...

From touring the battlefields of the Isonzo front of WWI we felt that needed a break before we headed into France and Belgium for what would be a month strai...

Leaving Bled we headed north, the plan to spend a bit of time touring the memorials and open air museums left over from the first world war - there are loads...

Bled in Slovenia is one of those perfectly lovely locations that really needs to be visited to grasp just how amazing it really is. I know that's said about...

A city I have wanted to visit for a while and although somewhat new in terms of tourism from North America, it has gained quite the momentum here in Europe a...

If you're going to Slovenia changes are that you'll hit Ljubljana and Bled, but a location that shouldn't be missed is heading down to Postojna to see the ca...

When I first heard about this area it was years ago from a dear friend Lidia Varesco who had visited this area with her family. When we told her about our tr...

As much as we keep saying we will slow down from our travels we haven’t quite mastered it yet. So, we decided Zadar seemed like a place we could spend a week...

Croatia is known for a few things, an amazing coastline dotted with old walled cities, beautiful islands to get away and potentially party the night away, an...

Driving from Jajce, Bosnia to Split took about 3 hours and luckily the border crossing was quick seamless. This is the third time we have entered Croatia ove...

We left Sarajevo heading north to spend a few additional nights in Bosnia & Herzegovina. There is a lot to see in this country, we barely scratched the surf...

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - the capital of the country. The city that I would have said was the city best know as the flashpoint that started WW1, be...

A real quick post on heading out from our 5 nights in Kotor, Montenegro. Our next stop was in Bosnia and Herzegovina, destination Sarajevo, but with the dri...

Not counting the 5 days we enjoyed with friends Elaine and Sharon, after Budva we felt it seemed appropriate to have another 5 days to take in Montenegro and...

Montenegro was a fascinating country, part of Yugoslavia before the Homeland war, and a country we had wanted to visit. Similar in some ways to Croatia, but ...

After we left Elaine and Sharon in Dubrovnik, we headed south to Montenegro, but first we felt that we deserved a stop in the luxury resort town of Kupari. B...