The Best Day Trips from Split (Croatia)
The Best Day Trips from Split. I often see posts on the internet suggesting day trips from Split to places like Dubrovnik, Mostar, Plitvice Lakes and Vis. Unless you want to be travelling 5 or 6 hours …
Why you should visit the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania (Vilnius)
Why you should visit the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania I thought this post should be written, principally because we almost didn’t visit the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania at all. It …
The Best of Croatia (and around) Itinerary
The Best of Croatia (and around) Itinerary Between living and travelling to Croatia, we’ve spent more than 2 years in the country. We’ve really gotten to know Croatia, it’s one of our favorite …
Where to stay in Prague (including our favorite neighbourhood)
Where to stay in Prague. I’ve said it many times – Prague is our favorite city in the world. It’s where we started our full-time travels in 2014. Since then we’ve been back every year, staying …
The Spomeniks of the ex-Yugoslavia
The Spomeniks of the ex-Yugoslavia This post was contributed by Siobhan McMahon. She and her husband are full-time travellers currently discovering the Balkans. Siobhan is a professional writer so if …
Prague or Budapest – which to visit?
Prague or Budapest It was time to update this post. I first compared Prague and Budapest in 2015. At that time we had spent a total of 3 months in Prague, a total of 2 months in Budapest. Since then …
Castles and Fortresses that you may have never heard of
Over the last 10 years of travel we’ve seen a lot of castles and fortresses. Some are famous, like Germany’s Neushwanstein Castle and Romania’s Bran Castle (both overrated castles in my opinion). But …
Split or Dubrovnik?
Split or Dubrovnik? I had this dilemma many years ago before I knew Croatia. It was 2015 and we wanted to spend a month in Croatia and didn’t know where to base ourselves. We ended up choosing Split …
THE Reason to Visit Vis (Croatia)
Back in 2017 we lived in Croatia. We had a lot of things going on that year between work, moving to Split, and getting residency papers in order. Lissette was burned out and announced that she needed …