An unabashed tourist and her family explore the world one holiday at a time.
We arrived in Dubrovnik on the heels of the worst heat wave Europe had seen in decades. I think it must have been over 38°C in the shade! A recipe for disaster when you’ve just driven four hours in a campervan, crossed the border between Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina (twice) and had to walk for an hour in the...
I smile indulgently as I watch my little hooligan jumping on the remnants of a toppled column in a quiet corner of the Diocletian’s Palace complex. Gareth is off on his own, exploring the Game of Thrones Museum, so the little one and I indulged in a bag of candy from a confectioner’s shop and, with the sugar rush roaring...
If you’re a nature lover, then the one thing you shouldn’t miss while in Croatia is a visit to Plitvice Lakes. Think turquoise lakes, cascading waterfalls, verdant green forest, and endless wooden walkways. Trust me, it’s worth the price tag. We had tickets for the first entry slot of the morning, and I’m so glad we were there before the...
Our foray into Croatia hadn’t been too successful thus far. After the beauty of Slovenia, Croatia with its quiet (read: boring) mountaintop towns and disastrous campsites (truly horrendous) was not living up to our expectations. We needed to seriously correct that. We hadn’t planned on visiting Mošćenička Draga, but it had a campsite with 5-star reviews on Google and so...
Our Croatian guidebook said not to miss Motovun, a popular mountaintop village in Istria. We didn’t need any further encouragement and watched in excitement as the town, indeed spectacularly located, drew closer. Like all medieval towns, cars aren’t allowed in the historic centre, so we parked the campervan somewhere halfway up the hill and set to walking. Apparently Motovun is...
We chose to explore Slovenia and Croatia via campervan because of the freedom this method of travel would allow us. We could pack up and go as we please, sleeping over wherever we found a good spot for the night. But what happens when you can’t find a good spot? After our visit to Lipica in Slovenia to see the...
I planned out our ideal route before we travelled to the Balkans. We were going to visit Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina during our 3-week campervan trip. Things didn’t turn out quite as planned. The company we hired the campervan from were adamant that we were not to take the vehicle into either Montenegro or Bosnia & Herzegovina,...
