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
Lake Bled, Slovenia had been on my travel bucket list for many years. You’ve probably seen the photos; a church on an island in the middle of a turquoise lake, nestled under the Julian Alps. You could stay at a hotel in the small town of Bled, but I wanted to be close enough to … Read more
During our stay in Ljubljana, Slovenia, we came across a small medieval fair on Gornji Square (Gornji Trg). We saw a performer named Eleonora and stopped to listen for a bit. This is Eleonora performing her rendition of a traditional Croatian folk song about a young girl who becomes a fairy after drinking from an … Read more
For years, friends had been telling me about the beautiful area of the Czech Republic called Český ráj, or Bohemian Paradise but I had never found the free time to go while living in Prague. Our original plan was only to go camping there for two nights but I found what I thought was a … Read more
If there is one thing you should have learned about Northwest Ireland from this blog, it’s that it rains constantly. You will have grand plans about going hillwalking to see some cairn on the weekend or some such notion and then you will not be able to go because it is raining, again. Have a … Read more