Mike and I have just spent the last 9 days on the Pelješac Peninsula next to the tourist island of Korčula. Although we are on a peninsula, it feels more like an island. To get to our campsite we took a one-hour ferry from the mainland. Croatia has some very …
As always, Mike and I think that we can do more in a day than we actually can. We recently visited the …
Mike and I have been staying near Split for the last week. It looks like we will be here even longer. The …
Croatia has quite a few national parks that Mike and I are enjoying visiting. We have just spent five nights in the …
Mike and I are staying next to the Island of Pag. It is the 5th largest island in Croatia and it has …
Plitvice Lakes National Park The two most visited places in Croatia are the city of Dubrovnik and Plitvice Lakes National Park. Mike …
Mike and I have just spent the last 10 days on our first of the many islands we will explore in Croatia. …
Mike and I have just left Rijeka and Opatija a couple of days earlier than we wanted. We lasted 9 days wild …
I ended the last article telling you about our hassles trying to find somewhere to park our camper for a week or …
I am afraid that there are no interesting historical facts or information about interesting towns in this entry. This is just an …
Mike is getting a little claustrophobic. We have had multiple days of rain in a row. We are nowhere near a large …
Yesterday Mike and I headed to Pula, a town about one hour south of us. I had bought another app for my …
Mike and I haven’t taken much advantage of being in a part of the world filled with wineries, olive trees and lavender. …
It is really hard to know what to say about this part of the world. It is lovely. It is historic. Towns …
Mike and I have just left Slovenia after a 51-day visit. Just as a reminder, Slovenia is less than ½ the size …
The picture above is quite appropriate. Mike and I have been in and out of Italy and Slovenia for the last couple …
Mike and I are now visiting the Istrian Peninsula which is split between three countries Italy, Slovenia and with the majority of …
Mike and I left Lake Bled and Triglav National Park heading for three well known tourist sites, Predjama Castle, Postojna Cave and …
For those that enjoy nature I can’t think of a better place to spend some time. Triglav National Park and the surrounding …
We have only been in Bled for 2 ½ days and I can’t wait to tell everyone about this jewel. I can’t …
Sorry but this is a very long article. A lot has happened since I last wrote. Mike and I have just spent …
Mike and I have just spent the last 10 days in a National Park on the Drava River, 5 km from Slovenia’s …
We have just spent our first week in Slovenia. Before I introduce you to Slovenia I want to finish off some of …
What luck to be in Budapest for St. Stephen’s Day. There weren’t as many areas with kiosks and games and things like …
Mike and I are back in a hotel in Budapest for two nights, but one of our suitcases isn’t. It is our …
Mike and I left Samobor, Croatia heading north. We would have have stayed longer if the Sava river had been deeper in …
Mike and I left Zaton Holiday Resort around lunch time on Monday, drove 70 km (almost 3 hours) to the campground we …
What a different week for Mike and me. In our trip so far, we have been staying at campgrounds in very rural …
It is a good job that Mike and I aren’t married to our schedule. We had expected to spend March and April …
Mike and I have just spent 10 days in a couple of towns in southern Hungary. These are towns that we drove …
I am sure how many of you know about geocaching, Mike and I didn’t. I had heard the term on TV a …
Before I start tearing up and saying good-bye to this wonderful country let me tell you a bit about one of the …
It is June 21 and Mike and I are still in Romania. And on June 21, Happy Birthday Mum. Mike and I …
Although Mike and I have just left Transylvania, we have not left Romania. We are now in the northern region of Romania …
Let’s start with what we don’t like about Romania – THE DRIVER’S. We actually avoid taking our bikes on roads with a …
Our lovely hosts at our current campground, Nico and Lucia, had offered to cook up a large batch of Romanian Goulash for …
Sighișoara, more than any other town we have visited, gives one the feeling of being in a real medieval city. It was …
Mike and I love Transylvania. It is a mixture of the Swiss Alps, Bavaria and New Zealand 50 years ago, but much …
I wanted to start this post off with an explanation of what “moving slowly” really implies on this trip. Last year we …
40+ years of working long hours was worth every second given that it led to this phenomenal retirement experience for both Mike …
We had a busier day than normal planned, with a lot of driving around in the car to different sites and villages. …
This is our first day in Transylvania and we are staying in a fairly rural, but not remote, area. It isn’t uncommon …
As I write this, Mike and I are once again driving in our RV. We have just left our first campground in …
After seven days we are leaving the campground in Harkány which is half an hour south of Pécs, one of the larger …
First let me start by saying the Mike and I love our electric bikes!!! Most of the kinks have been worked out, …
For those that aren’t interested in electric bikes you can skip this long article. I plan on covering the two main variations …
Mike and I are still in the Lake Balaton area. We are now in a campground on the north side of the …
Lake Balaton, also known as the “Hungarian Sea”, is a huge tourist resort area. It is a couple of hours drive from …
It is Friday afternoon and Mike and I are driving away from Budapest and I feel awful. Our very generous hosts where …
Back to our second home again! We left Canada 10 days ago. We stopped in London to visit my Aunt who is …
We leave in 1 ½ days and we are not ready. How did the time disappear in the last few weeks. Apologies …
The summary of our trip below was written in November 2017. It is now the beginning of March and we are finally …
Mike and I have spent the past 10 days racing to Budapest while also doing some running around before leaving our RV …
Our first full day in Krakow started with a city tour bus. It might be the worse city tour that we have …
Mike and I are currently in Warsaw, Poland. We had a few problems finding somewhere to stay as we arrived on October …
I am afraid that Mike and I travelled through Lithuania faster than we wanted to but the weather really wasn’t conducive to …
After Moscow and St. Petersburg Riga was said to be the third most important city in the Russian Empire. It was also …
Well here are Mike and I in Estonia. Not what we expected when I last wrote an entry but luckily, we aren’t …
St. Petersburg WOW!!! The buildings, the churches, the architecture and the art WOW! Mike and I would have really liked three weeks …
Rain, rain and more rain!!! For many hours every day and all night the rain pours down. This has been Helsinki. Until …
From rural Sweden to Stockholm and I haven’t written a word. All together Mike and I have now spent one month in …
Mike and I have left Norway and are now in Sweden. I thought this would be a good time to just …
We have been told that Norwegians are really serious about their rules with hefty punishments for things like drinking and driving, speeding, …
Mike and I are now travelling around the area we most wanted to see this summer – the western coast of Norway …
Bergen is Norway’s 2nd largest city and its wettest city and this year has been their rainiest year in a very long …
When Mike and I stayed in a campground in Oslo we met a few families that were there with their children for …
Preikestolen / Pulpit Rock Climb For 4 or 5 hours yesterday I kept saying to myself “I am a senior citizen. I …
For this entire trip I have been trying to be extra polite, extra friendly and extra rule and law abiding i.e. not …
We had been told to visit the small picturesque town of Risor on our drive through the south. It was quite a …
Let me start by saying that in our first week in Norway we have met a lot of super nice and friendly …
After aiming for Norway this entire trip we have finally crossed the border. Recently Mike has been getting a little restless waiting …
I am writing this in the pouring rain and severe winds in a marina near the small town of Ängelholm. Thanks to …
Mike and I are currently driving from Denmark into Sweden. We will soon be on a large bridge that connects the two …
Castles, Palaces & Gardens Denmark has a lot of fascinating castles and palaces, called “slots” and many of them seem to have …
Happy Birthday Mum! Hopefully you think a surprise visit home by Mike and I is a good birthday present. To ours friends, …
Mike and I have seen many very different sites over the last few days. We spent a great day at the Egeskov …
Instead of talking about what we have seen and what we have been doing I thought that I would dedicate this blog …
Northern Denmark – Mike and I are currently in Skagen which is the northernmost town in Denmark. Skagen is the most “touristy” …
We have visited various Danish attractions in the last few days. We spent some time in Ribe which is Denmark’s oldest town. It …
It’s been a few days since I posted a note so this one might jump around a little. My apologies if the …
Mike and I have spent the last two weeks in northern Germany. Our thanks go to Clemens, our friend from Hamburg, for …
Hamburg Miniature Wonderland Wow, it is no wonder that this Miniature Wonderland is considered Hamburg’s number one tourist attraction. It is said …
It has been almost a week since we left Mike’s family in Holland. I feel like we have really started our …
Antwerpen, Belgium: It worked. The shipping company got our motorhome and our car from Halifax to Antwerpen. Our agents in Antwerpen had …
A very strange beginning to our trip. Our plane was due to leave Toronto for Reykjavik at 7pm Sunday night. When I …
Mike and I have spent the last week traveling through the northern US: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and now upper New York …
Mike and I spent almost two weeks on the island of Cape Breton. What a glorious time of year (ignoring hurricanes!). The …
October 22, 1976 to October 22, 2016. A happy 40th anniversary to my best friend and husband. My love and my thanks …
Mike and I left Newfoundland a little quicker than we wanted so that we could get to the Celtic Colours festival in …
Yet again does a hurricane far off-shore affect our trip. The remnants of Hurricane Matthew have given us an extremely “interesting” Thanksgiving. …
I don’t want to write this entry because it means that our time in Newfoundland and Labrador is over for now. Mike …
Slopes and Hills – not great for the Lincoln or the RV. Both the RV and the Lincoln have each run into …
I am sitting here in our RV living room with my feet up in my recliner looking out the window. What is …
We just spent two nights in Cupids and it was super. Everything went great: our camping location, the hospitable people we met …
Mike and I have spent three days so far on the western arm of the Avalon Peninsula. On Monday we drove …
We have just spent 5 days on the Bonavista Peninsula. Other than worrying about running out of propane we had a super …
This entry is just a quick test to see how a very wide panorama photo works. If you click on the photo …
We have just spent five nights on Fogo Island. It is a barren rock with lots of ocean and a really super …
We arrived on Fogo Island last night along with Environment Canada’s warnings about really strong winds and tying campers down. Apparently Hurricane …
This note was originally going to be titled “Newfoundland: Music Everywhere” but I just realized that Mike and I have spent the …
