Monthly Archives: June 2010
Euro Trip Day 17: Rain rain… is pretty nice, actually
So today we’d planned to go to Ostrog Monastery, a really neat-looking monastery built into the side of a cliff up in the mountains northeast of here. It would have been our first organized tour of this trip — for everything else, we’ve just been doing stuff on our own. Did you notice the “we’d [...]
Euro Trip Day 16: What a neat, neat day
Today started off early… too early. Because I couldn’t sleep, I went to bed sometime after 4:30… only to have to wake up at 7:45 for church. Whee! I can’t remember if I mentioned it here or not, but here in Sveti Stefan, we’re actually staying with a coworker of mine whose husband’s family lives [...]
That taboo subject: money. Here, have a spreadsheet.
I know people get weird when it comes to talking about money, but when I was planning this trip, that fact made my life difficult. While I could piece together the cost of certain things (train tickets, hostels, etc.) I really had no idea how much people were spending on an average basis on a [...]
Euro Trip Day 15: Another slow day, and I’m not complaining
Before I start my post, I have a question. Who the heck are all of you people? I just glanced at my site stats, and I had 185 page views yesterday. Now I know that in the grand scheme of blogs and things, that that’s not a huge amount, but considering my average page view [...]
Here, have a map. :-)
Here’s a point-to-point map of where I’ve been thus far — I’m going to try to keep it updated when we switch cities. :-) You can click on it and zoom in to see details from where I’ve been. You can also click on the symbols to see in what cities we stayed, what type [...]
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Tagged Belgium, Bosnia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Montenegro, Poland, Silliness
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Euro Trip Day 14: Best. Sunset. EVER
(The headline is a Simpsons reference, btw.) This is going to be short because I’m exhausted — literally, I’m falling asleep writing this post. Today we got up at dawn and got to the bus terminal REALLY early and waited for our bus, in order to avoid yesterday’s snafu. The bus ride wasn’t long distance-wise, [...]
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Tagged Croatia, Landscapes, Montenegro
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Euro Trip 13: Ummm, still in Korcula
So I fail at reading a bus and ferry schedule, and even after consulting the hostel owner, we still somehow ended up at the ferry depot at the wrong time. I was under the impression that the ferry we’d planned to take today ran seven days a week… Nope, no Thursdays or Fridays. WHOOPS. Fortunately, [...]
Euro Trip 12: Best day so far [with an asterisk]
. So the picture? That’s John’s feet. Pure, unadulterated color on that shot. Looks fantastic, doesn’t it? The rest of him is just as, if not even more, toasted than his feet. Anyway, before I go into why today was so awesome, let me explain the asterisk first. No, it’s not John’s sunburn, although that’s [...]
Euro Trip Day 11: Hoping that this is as unfun as it gets
I’ve had better days. We slept in a bit today, had a leisurely breakfast, and then decided to rent bikes and head out to explore the island a bit. However, we somehow took a wrong turn, and ended riding 3 kilometers up a REALLY BIG HILL. I know, only 3 km — cry me a [...]
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Tagged Croatia, Landscapes, People, Video
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Euro Trip Day 10: In which the entire day can be summed up in one picture
. Slept in, went to the beach, went to the grocery store, ate lunch, went back to the beach. Read, napped, swam, sunned. It’s a brutal life. Sorry for the boring post… it was a boring day, but so so so heavenly to have that boring day. (It was a beach day because we’re saving [...]