Our Transylvanian adventure was anchored by a house-sitting gig in a small Romanian village. During the sit, exploration was limited by day trips that could be completed between our morning and evening responsibilities with the pets. In the weeks before and after the sit, we were able to visit many of the popular sites less inhibited. Continue reading “BAtB: Vampire Free Transylvania”
BAtB: Life in a Romanian Village
We arrived in mid-May to the small Transylvanian village of Blăjel for our next house-sitting gig. In the previous month we had been traveling through the area and scheduled a lunch to meet the homeowner and her pets in person before committing to the sit. We thought this would help prepare us for the experience. Little did we know that living in the Romanian countryside would be a bit like stepping through a time warp to a more simple time. Continue reading “BAtB: Life in a Romanian Village”
Bouncing Around the Balkans: An Introduction
I’ve done it again. It’s been over a month since my last confession, um, I mean post. In my defense, we have been travelling pretty fast again. Just when I think we learned our lesson, we get ourselves into a situation where we don’t plan far enough ahead and realize that we have too many people and places to see, covering too great a distance, in much too short a period of time. In the last three weeks, we visited 7 cities in 5 different countries, traveled over 2,000 km, most of the time staying in a place for only a couple of nights. We are now back where this chapter of the adventure started, in Zagreb, Croatia. We’ll be staying put for the next month, giving both of us a chance to catch up on everything we didn’t have time for while in a perpetual state of motion. Continue reading “Bouncing Around the Balkans: An Introduction”
Rubber meets the road
Sometimes you are going along just fine down the beautiful road of life. Then you hit a pothole or get a flat tire. What do you do in those situations when the rubber meets the proverbial road? How do you handle things thrown at you in life? Continue reading “Rubber meets the road”