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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…
Arriving to Zurich from Evian-Les-Bains After our grab-and-go dash of Evian-Les-Bains to fill our water bottles with the swanky stuff, we hopped a stupidly expensive ferry across Lac Léman (Lake Geneva) to Switzerland. This is a country both of us had previously been to independently but never together. I went in 2008 on a ski trip with some girlfriends to Geneva/Chamonix,…
It’s no secret that France is the most visited country in the world. And, like many dreamy teenagers, it positively beckoned me. That shimmering iconic tower…that sexy intonation…Audrey Hepburn’s influence and of course….the possibility of amour. All this is pretty much why I naively decided to take French in high school. (A decision I sometimes regret!) But it certainly wasn’t my first…
Annecy: the "Venice of the Alps" The area surrounding Thonon-les-Bains, where we stayed for our May housesit is simply loaded with day trip opportunities. Annecy, pronounced Ahn-see, is a petit alpine city located near the border of Switzerland, and commonly tagged as the “Venice of the Alps.” However, it seems significantly calmer, tidier and quieter without that overrated Italian label.…