A quiet day of reflection in Plovdiv After a restful night’s sleep we spent today doing as little as possible and relaxing. We intentionally kept a low profile and gave ourselves a day off as there’s a good chance we won’t be getting much sleep tonight on our […]
Ready for our Hungarian adventure We’re in Budapest! Capital of the ancient and mighty Hungarian empire and once one of Europe’s greatest cultural capitals, Budapest is today a bustling metropolis of more than 3 million people. The two halves of the city, Buda and Pest, straddle the Danube […]
Welcome back to Slovakia! We’re back in Slovakia, though it’s just for the day. Our tour takes us through the mountainous Northern part of Slovakia on our way through to Budapest (Hungary), with tonight’s home-away-from-home being the alpine town of Tatranska Lomnica. It took us about […]
Vitajte na Slovenskom! That is: welcome to Slovakia! The Eastern European leg of our adventure has well and truly begun with today being our first day in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. We caught the local train with our tour group this morning out of Vienna. […]
