When we arrived in Spain, we spent the first night in the city called Blanes. We were struggling to find a suitable place to spend the night during many hours of driving through coastal towns and villages on the south coast of Spain. So at one point when it was already dark, we just parked …
Month: August 2018
After spending a few hours in Monaco we took the direction towards Marseille. The plan was to Drive at least a couple of hundred km and spend the night somewhere just before Marseille. The views toward the French Riviera were wonderful. Since we did not want to be overwhelmed by the tourists, we decided to …
After we left Italy, we made a quick visit to Monaco. It was on our way anyway and it would have been a pity not to visit the home of one of the finest and biggest yacht boats. Jaanus certainly did not want to miss those. We hoped to visit Jaanus’ relative who lives in …
Firstly, 5Terre or Cinque Terre are 5 little villages in the northwest of Italy by the Ligurian Sea. These villages are Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore. The coastline, the five villages, and the surrounding hillsides are all part of the Cinque Terre National Park and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The 5 villages …
Although at first when we arrived, after a long drive to lake Garda, we were exhausting. We drove over 600 km. On the way, we were trying to find a place to eat, but it seems that all the pizzerias were closed before noon. Finally, we found one in a small town. The waitresses greeted …
After spending the night in the hotel beach in Montenegro we continued our way towards Croatia. There was not much to go til the border so we arrived well before noon. However, since it was the weekend there were many cars already waiting to cross the border. So we had to wait about 30-40 minutes til …
When we drove to Montenegro, the first impression was not too great, because right after the boarders there was a huge trash dump field which was on fire…. . So Montenegro greeted us with the smell of burning trash. Nevertheless, when the first impression is so bad, it can get only better… and it did. …
Since we are starting to have some time pressure we decided to go straight to Serbia and leave Albania and Macedonia for some other time. We have been telling since the beginning that our motto is not to just collect countries. Thereby since we saw that we have not enough time to explore some of …
Bulgaria firstly surprised us with the extremely bad roads. It might have been caused by the fact that we did not drive on the main highways, but definitely… Bulgaria is the winner for the most awful roads. We could not find a reasonably priced Airbnb host in Varna or Burgas. Thereby we decided to go …
We started our day in Romania looking for the Tunnel of Love. This was a rather strange process.. Firstly, we arrived in a small town with people keeping their horses, goats, and cows right in front of their house next to a main road. Dogs were just randomly running around and just stopping right in …