I may have covered some of this in earlier posts, but as we get to the end of the trip, these are the main things I think we've learned. This kind of trip is awesome. Stay a few days somewhere and move on means you're never too upset by anything, and you never get bored. … Continue reading Some Key Learnings →

It's amazing, and a bit sad, but of course inevitable, that we're approaching the end of the trip! I got my run in, then quick supermarket trip. The run wasn't too hot - I'd applied sunscreen and taken water with me fearing the worst, but it was overcast and even rained whilst I was in … Continue reading Dubrovnik! →

We'd decided on a bit of a whim a day or so ago to look at Split entertainment options on Get Your Guide and saw a speedboat half day trip. Thankfully, the group decision was to book it - yes, it was £45 a head, no discount for kids, but...it was great. Two stops at … Continue reading Split →

I started, it won't surprise you, with a run. A dinky 6k, as that's the circumference of the lake, and I wasn't going to do 2 laps. You can't really drift off a bit without some steep inclines, so forget that. This suited me as my Achilles tendon is starting to bother me... hopefully nothing … Continue reading Lake Bled →

Well, that wasn't a very good night's sleep, I'll be honest. Everyone else seemed to cope better than me though, so we'll soldier on. The train was very noisy with sounds like a dynamo overdrive type thing, and lots of stops with weirdly sudden braking. We pulled in to Ljubljana station about 30 minutes late, … Continue reading Good Morning, Ljubljana! →

I got an excellent run in, sky more overcast and thoroughly enjoyed seeing a bit more of the city. After breakfast, we went to Margaret Island (back to Nyugati station, then a number 26 bus from exit C - the bus requires a separate ticket, but only for adults, not kids - it looked like … Continue reading Budapest Day 2 →

We took a Bolt (not messing around with Uber again! plus Bolt allowed me to pre-book an XL vehicle, a Renault Espace, no less) to the main station for the 1005 to Budapest. There's a coffee shop called Minit on platform 1, hidden behind a block of left luggage lockers. A range of mini-pastries available … Continue reading Bratislava to Budapest →

I got my run in, which I'd planned in haste. I'd avoided crossing any big roads, so it worked quite well, but God, no green spaces at all. I'd planned to run through a red-shaded area which I'd thought would be an old town area...it turned out to be the university hospital... which was VAST! … Continue reading Vienna – Good Liquids, Poor User Experience →

Our Vilnius arrival was a little more brusque than we were expecting - the Uber driver, and car, were a bit rough, the areas of Vilnius we drove through looked a bit dicey too and our hostel was more... Bohemian than we were expecting. It's a campsite with a few rooms, really. We have a … Continue reading Vilnius →

We arrived on time after a slow, basic and fairly noisy train ride from Valga (there was a loo though, at least!). The day had changed abruptly from cool to hot and humid (at least allowing me to get the benefit of my convertible trousers!) so by the time we reached our apartment building, we … Continue reading Riga →