Passion’s End
We’d thought crossing from Hungary into Serbia was tedious. Turns out that was a walk in the park compared to leaving Serbia and entering Bulgaria and the European Union without the benefit of having an EU passport! The border crossing is on the main route from Western Europe to Turkey and the occu...
Sitting on Two Stools
After just a brief two night stopover in Budapest, we continue our journey southeast towards Belgrade. The border crossing is painful! Hungary of course is both in the EU and the Schengen zone. Serbia is in neither!! It takes almost an hour in the line at the border crossing to leave Hungary (why??...
Education or Circumcision.....🤔
Slovenia is a jewel of a country! Just 2 million people in a country half the size of Switzerland, squeezed in between Austria and Hungary to the north and east, Italy and Croatia to the south and west. In its current form, the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia is just 31 years old (its birthday...
The Posh End of Austria
We drive several hours southeast of Munich crossing into Austria close to Salzburg and head on south into the province of Carinthia, almost Italy, almost Slovenia but still very much Austria. In fact politically at least, this is the most conservative corner of Austria largely rural and with an inte...
ImPASSIONed
Impassioned: " Filled with or showing great emotion..... " not perhaps the first thing that comes to a person's mind when hearing that we've signed up for "The Oberammergau Play Of The Passion Of Jesus Of Nazareth - the "Passion Play" which is staged once every ten years by the good burgers of the B...
Munchin’ in München
So with the world finally reopening again after more than two years of lockdowns and Covid-related restrictions, we’re back on the road. And back on the road again with Kevin & Megan, at last “released” from Western Australia which for two years was not only cut off from the rest of the world, but...