ADVENTURE ON A BUDGET | TRAVEL BLOG
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Exploring the Ajuda Neighborhood On our escape from Europe, we are passing through Portugal’s vibrant capital for four days. Surprisingly we had never been here so we decided to devote our time to discovering the city, and save Sintra and surrounding areas for another visit. We chose an apartment west of the center in the Ajuda neighborhood, which we noted looks…
In Summary…. This was my second time and Greg’s third visit to Spain and although we definitely found more redeeming qualities, budget saving measures, and I had the huge asset of being able to walk this time, (yay!) we’ve still concluded, it’s not a top country for us. At least it’s not in the winter or summer, and there are…