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FacebookEuro Trip Day 25: I should be packing, so instead I’m writing today’s blog post
Tomorrow morning we're heading out of here bright and early at 8AM to hop a train to Pécs, Hungary, yet another checkmark on a list of my attempts to see as many UNESCO World Heritage sites as possible (we've seen 3 so far on this trip: the old city of Dubrovnik in Croatia, the city of Kotor in Montenegro, and →
Euro Trip Day 24: In which we ponder why the Balkans only has two kinds of breakfast cereal
You know it was a REALLY slow day if I'm talking about breakfast cereal. As much as I like Zagreb so far, today we ran into a problem that we encountered in Dublin. Namely, that virtually NO museums are open on Mondays. They open on Sundays for a whopping THREE HOURS, but Mondays? Closed. The only one that was open today →
Euro Trip Day 23: Sarajevo to Zagreb
This post is coming a bit late because it seems like our internet access always seems to die on us in the evening, which is when I'd prefer to be sitting around working on things like reservations for upcoming cities and blog posts and the like. In any case, most Zagreb museums are closed on Mondays, for some reason (we →
We interrupt these trip pictures to bring you a magazine cover!
Back in May, I got my first paid photography job -- photographing some San Francisco-related things for a cover and the cover story for the magazine The Bourbon Review. Go me! Here's a link to the article (opens a PDF)--the pictures on pages 1, 4, and 6 are mine, as is the shoreline one on page 5. SWEET!! Many thanks →
Welcome to Zagreb. Here's your… Esperanto??
Welcome to Zagreb. Here's your... Esperanto??, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. Seen on a tourist information board in the Zagreb train station. Win. :-D
Euro Trip Day 22: Bus ticket to Sarajevo, 24€. Watching men argue over a giant outdoor chess set: Priceless.
I'm posting early because we're leaving for Zagreb this evening and I don't know if I'll get a chance to get to wifi between now and then. This morning we hit up the National Museum and the History Museum. They were both good, but the National Museum was very stark and depressing: half of it dealt →
Euro Trip Day 21: A depressing historical post (with past and present pictures)
I'm warning you in advance that this is going to be a depressing post, so don't be leaving comments that this made you want to go eat a pint of Ben and Jerry's or something. Sorry, my lame attempt at humor here. With today's post, I'm going to post some before and after pictures of the way stuff was and the →
Euro Trip Day 20: Pieces of History
The above picture is the street corner in Sarajevo where Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, kicking off World War I. I remember being fascinated by this when I took AP European History... Never did I think I'd be here. Crazy. Today was a slow day. We both were kind of mentally shot after the past two crazy →
Euro Trip Day 19: May our children never have to rebuild bridges someone else has destroyed
. Yesterday we went to Mostar, Bosnia, the site of some pretty intense fighting during the Bosnian War. To sum up part of a pretty complicated conflict, the Bosnians wanted to break away from Yugoslavia. So they aligned with the Croatian army (also part of Yugoslavia) and the two pushed out the Yugoslavian Army from the town of Mostar. Then the →
Euro Trip Day 18: It could have been worse. There could have been juggalos
This will be a very short post. Why? Because I have to leave for the train station in 30 minutes to drop my bags off, and also, I already wrote this post once, and I don't want to write it again. What happened to it? Lemme quickly recap yesterday: What was supposed to happen: We were supposed to get up early, get →
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 planned" and "would have been"? If →
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 here. In fact, they used to →
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 trip like mine. That was →
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 count hovers around 40-50 →
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 of place we stayed →
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, but we had to change buses →
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, the hostel we stayed at (the →
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 related to both the asterisk and →
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 river, right? Well, it was 90F+ →
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 up for something fun, like a kayak trip... and →
Euro Trip Day 9: In which we get to Korčula and I wonder why we didn’t just go straight here
(Side note -- the island's name is actually pronounced "KOR-chula" -- the č in Croatian is a ch sound.) So today I discovered one of the little problems with traveling and not really having a set schedule... one forgets what day it is fairly easily. This morning I woke up gradually shortly after 8, as the sound of jackhammers infiltrated →
The bluest water I've seen outside of a Ti-dee-bowl drop-in
This is not my daily picture post. This is a special post, because I'm just so awed that I couldn't just put this picture on Flickr -- I had to put it on my blog. The above picture is the Adriatic Sea as seen from the Marko Polo ferry from Dubrovnik to Korcula, which is what I'm riding on as I →
Euro Trip Day 8: In which my camera never left my room
Both John and I woke up feeling kind of lousy today. His stomach, never all that settled when traveling, was being cranky, and I had a splitting headache, and that persistent cough I've had since coming back from London last summer that I've been chalking up to allergies has been getting steadily worse on this trip, for some reason. I'm →
Euro Trip Day…7?? Already?!?!
Trip Day...7?? Already?!?! I have no idea if this video will come out rotated sideways or not, so if it is sideways, I apologize in advance. As high-tech as my phone is, it can't rotate video. Lame. Speaking of my phone, this has to be the best travel invention ever (and no, Joel!, I'm not trying to rub it in.) ;-) I →