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Arriving to Zvornik from Valjevo From Valjevo, our next destination was Sarajevo, where we’d be spending the next five weeks. Unfortunately, there was no train option. The railway heads southwest into Montenegro, not Bosnia & Herzegovina, so for the first time in Serbia we had to rely on buses. We figured getting to the border—and then Sarajevo—would be simple. Wrong.…
In Summary... On our 2019 first visit to Serbia, we only got a small taste of the country in the cities of Belgrade, Niš and Novi Sad. To be frank, we weren’t enamored, which is not surprising given our affinity for smaller towns, villages and more off-the-beaten path locations. However, we did fall for Subotica, which we discovered on a…
Getting to and Exploring Valjevo En route from our one month in Subotica to our next five weeks in Sarajevo, we wanted to check out some other parts of the Balkans, so we settled on Valjevo in Western, Central Serbia. It was convenient to access by train and offered hiking in a beautiful gorge, which we were desperately hungering for…
Exploring Szeged For our next day trip from Subotica, we hopped aboard a Choo-Choo to take us across the border into Hungary, an incredible country we haven’t set foot in since 2018. Szeged is not only the third largest city in Hungary, but the sunniest, making it one of the world’s most famous paprika producing hubs. In addition to strapping…
The Handsome Resort Town of Palic Just down the road from Subotica about 8 kilometers lies yet another gem of Vojvodina, the handsome resort town of Palic. You can access it easily from Subotica, either by train, local bus (#6) or bike, and it’s a idyllic place to spend a leisurely day exploring more ravishing architecture while enjoying the beautiful natural…
From Zurich, Switzerland to Subotica, Serbia Let’s face it. Switzerland and Liechtenstein were a little too…uh…refined for Greg and Mandy, so it was time to head somewhere we’re a little more comfortable…back to the Balkans, making this our third Balkan summer in eight years of #hashtag, nomad life. This time we’ve returned to Serbia…a country we visited only about 12 days…
In Summary... We didn’t really plan on going to Switzerland after our time in Thonon-Les-Bains. But when we scored a one-week housesit in Zurich, which made little neighboring Liechtenstein feasible, we figured we’d take it for a ride again. This was our first time in the country together, though we had both visited on separate trips in our twenties. It’s a…
Road Trip!! Getting from Zurich to Liechtenstein Twenty-four hours…3 countries!!! Eins, zwei, drei….los!!! From Zürich, we had one big goal we wanted to accomplish…have a first meeting and quickie rendezvous with Liechtenstein…a mysterious micro-state that is not only little, but quite notably…loaded. Of course we could have easily gotten to Liechtenstein’s capital of Vaduz by train, but, by the time we…