We made it to our final Baltic country of Lithuania so I can officially say we have completed the Trifecta. It seems like everyone we met here were visiting all 3 Baltic countries so it doesn’t seem that unique or unusual. Many people were also visiting Finland which is where we started our trip this…
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Matsumoto, Japan
We deliberately planned a smaller city to be out next stop after Tokyo. Matsumoto only has around 240,000 people and most tourists skip it or just spend 1 night. It really only has enough attractions for 1 or 2 nights but we don’t travel that way. We planned 4 nights in Matsumoto to give us…
Albania’s Hill Towns- Berat and Gjirokaster
We just spent some time in a couple of very scenic Albanian hill towns. Berat is the “City of Windows” and Gjirokaster is the “City of Stone”. They both had a lot of windows, a lot of stone and a very sweaty hike to the fortress in the middle of town. Both of them are…
Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Trains in this part of the world aren’t quite the same as Western Europe. Romania and Bulgaria still have trains but the infrastructure is still “in work” so they often have to go very slow. We don’t like long transportation days so we put in some shorter stops to break up the long train days….
Alicante, Spain
The last stop on the European leg of our fall trip. We have spent September in France, and October in Spain, and we knew we would be a bit weary from all that European culture travel so we had planned 9 days at the Spanish beach town of Alicante. We were envisioning a quiet week…