We left Bolzano around noon and traveled back to the Venice Airport area; we’re catching an 8 a.m. plane out of Marco Polo tomorrow m…

The mist cleared a little today so we walked north out of Bolzano along the river.  There is a very nice park that runs on bo…

Bolzano is a beautiful and interesting town.  We’d decided to end our month-long vacation here because we wanted to see the Dolo…

Today was a first for me; I did something I can’t recall ever doing on a trip before.  I didn’t take a photo for the entire day!!! …

The tour took us back to Zagreb where everyone else was flying out the next morning.  My husband and I would be taking the overnigh…

We had the afternoon to ourselves so my husband and I walked along the waterfront in Opatija and through some of the parks.  We retur…

The winds were calm enough in the morning for us to take a boat ride along the coast west of Opatija to Moscenice.  The turn of the c…

Opatija is definitely a resort town, located on the ocean on the west side of Croatia.  It has parks,…

We spent the rest of the afternoon in Rovinj, a small fishing town with heavy Venetian influences and a wild palette of colors. …

Pula is the largest town on the Istrian peninsula but its real claim to fame is a Roman amphitheater that is almost completely preserved.…

We left Sibenik at 8 a.m. with clouds and a very strong winds accompanying us to Zadar.  Zadar is a marvelous city, the anc…

We had lunch in Zadar and then boarded our bus for the trip to Opatija which was supposed to be merely a few hours travel through the mount…

We finish the day by walking through Sibenik with Marina as our guide.  Like the other towns along the Da…

Jurlinovi Dvori (the court of Jurlin) is a cluster of small stone houses around a central courtyard.  It has everything; an aura o…

After a buffet breakfast with a wide variety of offerings in a cavernous dining room (space for three hundred and probably almost that m…

We arrive at Sibenik just in time for dinner at Hotel Ivan in Sibenik.  This is one of a cluster of Soviet style architecture hotels c…

Luggage had to be outside the room by 7 a.m. today so we all had an early start.  There was a short stop in Neum in Bosnia (the only …

Almost everybody on the tour took this morning’s optional trip to Cavtat and Konavle.  Cavtat is a fishing village, turned to to…

Back in Dubrovnik, my husband and I take a late afternoon walk on the city walls around Dubrovnik.  The city had extensive earthqu…

Sunrise over the Adriatic Sea is spectacular and proves to be the best weather of the day.  By the time we’ve had breakf…

We had the morning at leisure which means luggage outside the room by 9 and on the bus by 10.  Naturally most of us slept in…

We left the hotel at 9:30 for a drive along the Southern Montenegro coast to view Sveti Stefan Island from above.  Albania is only a short…

Today’s going to be a long day so we had a 6:30 wake up call and were on the bus by 8:30.  We traveled to Kotor, a medieva…

st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } I got up a little early and walked down to the nearby Botanical Garden to photograph in mo…

The weather is still chilly - don’t you hate it when everybody tells you how nice it was last week?    The bus tour through Zagreb…

The train leaves the station at 6 am so we were up by 4:30am.  It’s going to be a long day.  And yes, it’s overcast and chilly agai…

Cloudy again today and still cold and damp so we’re beginning to get used to it.  I get dressed by picking an outfit and then just adding …

It was really chilly today with a high of 51 degrees.  When we walked along Andrassy Street to Heroes’ Square, we walked briskly.  Th…

We caused ourselves another problem today which I won’t describe in too much detail  Let’s just say it involved the apartment keys and…

Today we finally realized that we cause most of our own problems with little help from anybody else.  But before I write about that, let m…

I love traveling around by train.  It’s so much easier than air travel; the stations are near city centers, there’s lots of room in the …

The grouchy conductor who had taken our tickets the night before woke us politely the next morning in time to arrive at Bratislava and gave us ou…

We slept in since we had to pack and leave the apartment by 11 am.  Pulling our luggage behind us, we wandered back to our rental agency nea…

We met the tour bus to the Salt Mines across from the City Gate.  The Wieliczka mines are famous in Poland for the salt statues carved by th…

st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } In the morning it was overcast and drizzling when we met the tour bus to Auschwitz.  The we…

As we walked back into Krakow from the tour bus, we were surrounded by bands.  Marching bands with red plumes on their caps.&n…

. Things didn’t start too well in Krakow.  I had no map with me and had used Goggle Earth to figure out how to get from the train sta…

Tonight is to be our first train ride on this trip.  I'm looking forward to it but am also a little afraid too.  How can we find …

It was rainy and warm, one of those days when the humidity matched the temperature (and not in a good way).  We walked across the …

Our apartment manager arranged for a driver to meet us at the Prague airport (it was less than the cost of a taxi and much more fun to have someo…

We changed planes in Madrid and even at 4 in the morning the airport is gorgeous.  The interior is full of organic forms.…