Dan started feeling sick four days before we left for Holland, and almost two weeks later he is still not fully recovered. In retrospect, canceling the trip may have been better since he got a secondary infection probably from lack of sleep and hours of standing in the rain-but we …
Dan and I had tulips on the brain and we knew wanted to see them this Spring. We were determined to see Holland in all its Springtime glory-but we didn’t know where to stay. We didn’t use our usual Travel guru, Rick Steves, to pick a hotel because we wanted …
Our final two stops on this trip would both be in Croatia. The first stop for one night, is Plitvice National Park-about two hours from Zagreb. We left mild windy weather and arrived to…snow?! Wait, what? It was snowing-or had recently snowed at the National Park because everything was covered …
Stopping for just one night en route to Zagreb, we loved our quick jaunt to Slovenia’s capital–lovely Ljubljana. As Rick Steves notes, Ljubljana is a mix of cultures over time-and Vienna, Venice and Prague have the strongest influences. Rick Steves calls this city the “next, next Prague” (after Krakow). There …
Lake Bled, Slovenia, is one of the most stunning and picturesque lakes I’ve ever visited. While the Lake itself is charming, the …