We visited the charming town of Óbidos at the start of the Christmas season and instantly fell in love with it. Walking into this historic village felt like entering a storybook. The town itself is surrounded by stone walls and no cars are allowed through the gate (except for deliveries of both supplies and people…
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We visited Sintra after spending a few days in Lisbon and on our way to Óbidos. The picturesque town is in southwest Portugal in the foothills of the Sintra mountains. We only spent a day in Sintra and it feels like we just barely scratched the surface. For a relatively small town, there is a…
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One of the day trips we took from Zagreb was to the stunning town of Bled, Slovenia. After our train experience to Ljubljana, we opted for renting a car which gave us more freedom to also explore the nearby gorge. The town of Bled is cute and a lot of shops and cafes are geared…
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Premantura We spent a little over two weeks in Premantura, a small town just south of Pula on the coast of Croatia. Premantura is right at the entrance of the Kamenjak peninsula which makes it quite the amazing location. From where our apartment was, we could be in the sea within about a 10-minute walk.…
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While visiting North Macedonia, I took a day trip to Lake Ohrid and the town of Ohrid. This, of course, meant renting another car. I was picking up and dropping off the car in downtown Skopje. The location given for the rental car company was a hotel about a mile or so from my airbnb.…
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As part of my trip to Dubrovnik, I decided to rent a car and drive to Montenegro. I had a little over a day so I had to limit a bit of my exploring to a couple of places. But, before getting into the beauty of this Balkan country, I rented my first car internationally…
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After our eventful stay in Baja, we were pretty excited to spend 10 days in Tulare, CA. I chose the location for its proximity to Sequoia National Park, Kings Canyon, and Yosemite. I had been yearning for some time in the woods and had not previously been to any of these parks so it seemed…
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We drove down to Baja Sur, Mulege specifically, in three days. The drive itself, while long, was pretty uneventful which is what one typically hopes for in a long drive like that. Even crossing the US/Mexican border was pretty mundane and easy. Little did we know, the easiest part of our time in Mexico was…
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