ADVENTURE ON A BUDGET | TRAVEL BLOG
In Summary Time Spent: 9 nights Money Spent: $378 or $42/day USD/two people. This breaks down to: $0 (Accommodation) $222 (Transportation) $102 (Groceries) $41 (Restaurants $13 (General) Our itinerary: (3) nights Stockholm (Hyatt) (2) nights Älta (friends) (4) nights Kullavik (friends) Favorite place: Stockholm Would we return? Yes. Likely to see the same friends again, and we’d also consider housesits in…
To Gothenburg from Stockholm From Stockholm, unfortunately and shockingly, not a single Bla Bla car ride was advertised to head to Sweden’s second biggest city of Gothenburg. The platform apparently exists in the country but few are using it. When I asked my Swedish friend about it and explained the concept, her response was… “uh I don’t think many Swedish people…
From Ljubljana to Stockholm After a week of rapid and costly travel through Slovenia, we headed to cooler climates and to discover new and old friends up north in Scandinavia for the next month! We were also eager for full stomach satiation in the airport lounges after a week of grab-and-go groceries and strict budgeteering. This time our free flight…
In Summary... Our first trip to Slovenia was purposefully short. Not because we think the country is unworthy of tons of exploration, but because Slovenia is expensive for us. Yes, Western, Central and now even parts of Eastern Europe are all expensive too. Duh. But the difference is that in Slovenia, we knew we didn’t have a lot of good…
To Kranj, Slovenia from Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina The wallet suck of Slovenia started the day we left Bosnia & Herzegovina. From Banja Luka, there seemed to be plenty of Bla Bla cars heading north toward Zagreb (Croatia) or Ljubljana (Slovenia) so we didn’t think we’d have any trouble getting one. Wrong! We sent in a request for five different drivers…
In Summary On our 2019 first visit to B&H, we barreled through the popular tourist destinations of Mostar, Trebinje and Sarajevo in 10 days. This year, we returned to Sarajevo for five weeks, and chose it as our annual Medical Month destination, having put it on our list of “Known Knowns.” Turns out, that wasn’t the best decision for us……
We certainly didn’t get to explore as many small towns or natural attractions as we had originally anticipated during our six-week stay in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Thus, for our last and coincidentally my birthday week, it became the top priority to seek out its wonder as we headed to the charming town of Jajce from Banja Luka. This was after…
From Sarajevo to Banja Luka It was time to head north from Bosnia & Herzegovina’s first biggest city, Sarajevo, to its second biggest city of Banka Luka, which feels like a whole other country thanks to to its position as the capital of the "Republic of Srpska." Now, one might think going from Big City 1 to Big City 2 should…