We visited the town of Figueres, Spain to check out the Salvador Dali Museum. Getting to Figuerres Figueres can be visited as a day trip from Barcelona. Viator offers several tours to the Dali Museum and other locations, starting from Barcelona. You can reach Figueres by bus or train. A bus from Barcelona takes 2.5 … Read more
Karlštejn Castle is one of the top day trips from Prague. We made this trip in July 2014. Getting to Karlštejn Castle By train: The easiest and cheapest way to get there is by train. Karlštejn is less than an hour from from Hlavni Nadrazi (Main Station) in Prague and a return ticket is around … Read more
We spent our last weekend in Ireland in the lovely city of Kilkenny (Cill Chainnigh). I can’t believe that we waited 2 years before visiting the “Sunny South East”. Kilkenny is only 230 kilometers away from our former home in rainy Leitrim but what a difference in climate! Despite the clouds in my photos below, … Read more
We just couldn’t leave Croatia without visiting one of the islands. We didn’t want to drive too far south since we had plans to meet a friend in Belgrade, Serbia in a few days time so we chose the largest of Croatia’s islands, Krk. After paying the 35 kuna (4.50 euros) toll to cross the … Read more
If you are travelling to Plitvice National Park on the road from Zagreb to Split, you will first come across Rastoke, the center of the municipality of Slunj. It is here that the Slunjčica river flows into the Korana river, creating dozens of waterfalls along the way. This area is sometimes called “the Small Lakes … Read more