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 driver said that there had been a demonstration earlier so even though it was Saturday, things were tied up. He didn't say what the issue was but we later found out that it was a demonstration by Muslims against the first Gay Pride parade scheduled for Sunday. Our hotel did not have any English language news channels so we

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 pedestrian only street in the downtown. We had taken a bus from the airport and that was the easy part. But when we got off at the end of the line - we had no idea where to go and it was dark. Following the map, we went in what we thought was the direction of the hotel. It soon was clear that it was a very hilly city and we

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 downtown Pitesti estimated to be about an hour and half from the Bucharest airport. It was a straight forward route to return the car and go to airport for a late afternoon flight - expressway to beltway and then a short turn to the Klass Wagon facility. Well the "beltway" is not straight forward . It is called Centru Buchar

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 face in one at sometime. We even saw people at Bran Castle walking the paths with a cellphone. What could be more important than being somewhere in person – not experience something on a 3 inch screen. In Bucharest we had a paper map but not much more. That helped us get around. But when we drove to Brasov we didn’t have a