The drive from Montverde was back over some of the same roads that we had used to get there, but it veered off around Lake Arenal toward the volcano and La F...

The road for the first couple of hours back into the interior was the primary road that we had covered on the way to the coast, but when we turned toward Mon...

It's not easy to relax even though we are retired. San Jose was hectic and we did our usual museum thing, but Colina Del Mar required that we chill. Up a v...

We left San Jose around 10am for a 5 hour trip to Samara. Originally, I had intended to take the ferry from Puntarenas to Montezuma and drive along the coas...

We flew nonstop from Dulles to San Jose International airport in Costa Rica. There is only one nonstop on United from Dulles per week, but a 4 1/2 hour dire...

Our flight from Belgrade was short but it was raining when we got to Sarajevo. We took a taxi to our hotel near the old town. Traffic was heavy as our driv...

We spent 4 nights in Belgrade with a day trip to Novi Sad. Belgrade was quite a surprise. It was a challenge to find our hotel as it is located on a pedest...

Well as it happens it was very important that we had a smartphone with us as we left Romania. We spent our last night in Romania at a lovely hotel in downtow...

Yes, the smartphone is ubiquitous in Romania, as it is throughout the world – but here you just about can’t get around without one. And everyone has their fa...

My impression of Bucharest after admittedly a brief stay is that it is a recovering democracy. We have traveled to several former communist block countries ...

Our trip to Bucharest was uneventful - just a long day of travel. We took a cab from the airport as it was after 7pm by the time we got through customs and ...

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