Steven here, while Linda takes a well-earned break. We sometimes joke that the travel gods are looking down on us because, since getting on the road, we have been lucky to avoid things like bad weather, forest fires or any …
I used to look forward to writing these blog posts that lay out what our plans are for the coming year. It was all so exciting and fresh, so much to look forward to in the coming year! For our …
We had made a reconnaissance trip earlier to the island of Krk to check out another resort with cottages open year round. Not only was Krk a place we wanted to visit, but the cottages are right on the water. …
Croatia is one of the few countries in Europe that has stayed open to tourists during the Covid crisis, even welcoming the most shunned of all – Americans. As mentioned in our previous post, we landed at Camping Porto Sole …
While we were in Venice it was becoming pretty clear that the dreaded second wave of Covid had arrived. Masks became mandatory indoors and out, the only place they weren’t required was in your own home. We had been going …
We originally intended to spend the fall and winter of this year in Italy, which would have included Venice. But with all the changes to our route due to COVID, we put Italy on the back-burner and decided Croatia and …
Of all the places we were to visit during our time in Switzerland, I was most looking forward to Lugano, which is a sort of homecoming for me. I moved to Lugano in 1972 when I was 15 years old …
We left Interlaken and made our way to another lake town, Estavayer-de-Lac. This little town had been on and off our schedule multiple times as we plotted and re-plotted our path into and through Switzerland. Estavayer is a little medieval …
The sun was still beating down on us as we made our way off the mountain from Engleberg and headed toward one of Switzerland’s most popular places, Interlaken. By the time we arrived at our campsite, I insisted we should …
As mentioned in our previous post, when we crossed the border, we were stopped only to make sure we paid our toll costs/road tax while in Switzerland. What you purchase at this stop is actually a vignette, or as we …
