Matilda

Trains, planes and birthdays baby! We explore Milan, mistake a shopping center for the Duomo, Karina has a birthday and we eat more Asian food than you’d think. — If you’ve been following for a while you might have realized that Karina and I don’t really plan ahead that much. We have a loose set of thoughts on things that we’d like to achieve and a propensity to leap into action when the opportunity arises. …

Hurry up and wait, Spring is not quite here yet! — I don’t think there’s been a day this week where the conversation hasn’t turned to “Where are you heading when you leave?”, “When are you leaving?” or “I can’t wait to get going!” All of the liveaboards I talk to seem to be of a similar mindset. Living here in…

You can tell with the splutter of an old diesel engine and the hammering and banging on the docks, Spring is here. — Sunday was a typical Balkans type experience. Amazing scenery and amazing bureaucracy! We started our day driving back towards Montenegro from Ploče, Croatia where we came across Ston — another medieval town with very intact walls. …

It’s a lovely place to grow cabbages and to go chasing waterfalls… travelling through Croatia — One of the lessons this week has been just how cultural travel really is. And I don’t mean the culture you’re exposed to. The destinations and places you choose to travel to are also driven by culture.

Exploring Bosnia & Herzegovina — It’s hard to capture just how amazing we’ve found Bosnia & Herzegovina (I’ll use the local abbreviation of BiH from here) to be. It’s such a dramatic country. Dramatic landscapes, dramatic history, dramatic architecture… it’s just all around dramatic.

The storms finally hit big, then got even bigger… — That’s definitely a week we’re pleased to see behind us. After last Saturday night and the drama of the storms, we were hopeful things would ease up on Sunday evening. But unfortunately it wasn’t the case. Sunday night things got worse. …

The storms finally hit big… — It’s bad luck to think that things are going well and nothing is happening. Mid week I was talking with Karina about how we had no pictures so far and frankly we really hadn’t done much since returning from Düsseldorf and Athens except relaxing. …

More ruins, shopping, lots of boats and catching up with friends. — On Sunday we headed out for the day with Claire and Ollie back to the Lustica Peninsula. The goal, to visit Fort Kabala and show them the submarine pens as well as stopping off for a coffee at Lustica Bay Resort.