Europe

Venice & Carnevale – 3 days

I have long wanted to visit Venice and experience the famous Carnevale – one of the world’s oldest Carnival celebrations. Having just returned, I can definitely say it did not disappoint.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKrNns0vYjk How to get there We flew into San Marco airport – and what a smooth process getting through this airport was. To get from the airport to […]

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Pula arena

Idyllic Istrian Coast

Feeling the need to travel, but only have time for a long weekend? I highly recommend a trip to The Istrian peninsula in Croatia. The Istrian peninsula is the largest peninsula within the Adriatic Sea and is home to some truly stunning locations.  I had only been to Croatia one other time, and absolutely loved

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Stavropoleos Monastery

Romantic Romania

Carpathian Mountains At the beginning of every year I make a list of the places I would like to visit sometime over the next twelve months. When I did this for 2015, believe it or not Romania was not on the list; not that I didn’t want to go, but It just didn’t make it

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Church of the Assumption on Bled Island

Slovenian splendor

Dragon Bridge (Zmajski Most) In my quest to see the world I make it a point to try and visit several new countries a year. While I have seen quite a bit of Western Europe, my exploration of Eastern European has not been as vast. To begin to remedy this imbalance I decided to make

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