The lack of direct flights to Croatia from the US and our attempt to fly as cheaply as possibly called for a layover in Barcelona. Great, since none of us had ever been. Bad, since we were all too tired to be tourists in Barcelona. We flew into Barcelona knowing that we would have to […]
Dubrovnik Old Town and City Walls
The Bosnia-Herzegovina road tour ended in Dubrovnik where we were dropped off near our vacation rental in Lapad. By that time, England had already scored Croatia in the World Cup semi-finals. We quickly checked in with our hosts and went out looking for a place to watch the game. We were just in time to […]
Half A Day In Salzburg
One of us is obsessed with The Sound of Music. Which meant we couldn’t arrive in Austria and not pass through Salzburg. So we took a nice mid-morning train ride from Vienna to the Salzburg HauptBahnhof where we stalked the luggage lockers until we successfully found one, luckily a jumbo locker, to place all our […]
A Short Stopover in Vienna
The lack of direct flights to Croatia from the US meant that we had a choice of transit points so we chose Vienna. Neither one of us had been before, so we decided to give ourselves a brief introduction. We stayed in an AirBnB in Stephansplatz in the heart of Vienna. The main highlight here […]
World Cup 2018 – No Russia For Me
FIFA World Cup 2018 has come and gone. Unlike the past tournaments in South Africa (2010) and Brazil (2014) I did not travel to Russia to be part of the celebrations. That was a very conscious decision. You can say I’m still traumatized from my ordeal with THE BOYS. But the thought of going to […]
Why I love football (soccer)
I love football and it’s that time again. Less than a week. World Cup 2018. Except this time I am not going to Russia. World Cup 2010 South Africa and World Cup 2014 Brazil were awesome, but no, you can’t make me go to Russia. I’m not going. But I’m going to enjoy the next […]