Highs and lows in Slovenia

Blogged by Dave Slovenia has been a place I’ve wanted to visit for a long time, but it has always been a little too difficult to manage, either in terms of getting a visa or finding an easy flight or train into the country. Fortunately it is now a Schengen country, which sorts out the……

We took a train to Hungary and what happened next will BLOW YOUR MIND!!!

Blogged by Anne  From the high Tatras, we were on our way to Tokaj in Hungary. There is actually quite a convenient train route from Poprad to Tokaj, but the trains only connect properly if you leave at 6am or 6pm so we decided to make a day trip out of it by stopping in……

If it’s Friday, this must be Poland

Blogged by Dave We caught a short early morning flight from Vilnius to Warsaw in Poland, as opposed to a 7 hour bus – our only flight to get from one place to the next, but one that we felt was worth the saved time. We only decided to spend some time in Warsaw at……

Battle of the Baltics: Round 3 – Lithuania

Blogged by Anne    From Riga, we jumped onto a 5 hour bus to the Lithuanian town of Klaipeda. We were only there to catch a ferry, but there was a massive (possibly naval themed) festival on when we arrived and so we stopped to sample the local sausage and beer as well as a……

Battle of the Baltics: Round 2 – Latvia

Blogged by Dave For our trip through Eastern Europe we knew we would only have a fairly short time in each country and so we’ve tried to identify two or three places in each country that allow us to see a bit of both the city life and the country life. Ideally each place should……

Battle of the Baltics: Round 1 – Estonia

Blogged by Anne We chose our destination for this part of our travels by a process of elimination, looking for somewhere: reasonably affordable unaffected by the Rio Olympics doable in the 5 weeks we have available with no additional visa requirements Thankfully we have longish Schengen visas so we booked a flight into Helsinki and……

Escape to Europe

Blogged by Anne While Dave was getting some work done in Joburg, I snuck away to Europe thanks to some accumulated air miles. The main purpose of this trip was to spend some time with friends that I haven’t seen enough of lately, but there was also a bit of tourism thrown in. Massive thanks……