Summary: half-hour to the Albanian boarder, four hours driving through beautiful Albanian countryside, 1-1/2 hours waiting at the Montenegro boarder, and inhaling about an entire pack of second-hand cigarette smoke on the bus! We made sure to get down to…
Our initial plans were to travel directly from Macedonia to Albania for a few days, but after remembering our only previous visit to Albania (on a cruise in 2016, stopping at Durrës), we changed our minds – we weren’t that…
The 5-hour bus ride from Sofia to Skopje was uneventful, save the brief stop at the Macedonian boarder. On the Bulgarian side, after our passports were collected on the bus, taken off to be stamped. We usually don’t feel very…
We had a nice overnight stay in Barcelona after disembarking from our trans-Atlantic cruise, staying in a comfortable hotel just off La Ramblas. It gave us plenty of time to re-visit the area before catching an evening RyanAir flight to…
For the first half of April we “sailed” across the Atlantic Ocean on a 15-day cruise on Holland America Line’s ms Oosterdam. Oosterdam is a Vista class ship, bigger than most of the other cruise ships that we’ve been on,…
We just finished a 3-week Caribbean cruise, round-trip Ft. Lauderdale, on Holland America Line’s ms Rotterdam. The weather was great, and it was quite relaxing after all the traveling we did in Asia over the holidays. The only real downside…