Travel and Leisure blog
The Case for a Winter Visit to London The best part of a winter trip to London is the shopping. The winter sales and after the holiday bargains are the best! Boutiques, chains and local stores are selling their end of season goods with fantastic discounts. In today’s blog post I’ll share the best places […]
The winter season starts with Advent. The Christmas and New Year’s celebration lures tourists from all over the world to see the spectacles of Christmas activities around Zagreb. The winter season starts with Advent. The Christmas and New Year’s celebration lures tourists from all over the world to see the spectacles of Christmas activities around […]
I changed my mindset about reading in 2019. I’ve never enjoyed reading; however I was forced to read because I work in the technology industry where we are constantly learning. In university I had to read at least three books a week for my classes. After university, I would read a random sales book, book […]
On June 6 2019 my mom, friend Fiorella, Onawa and I drove through Bosnia in rout to Zadar Croatia. We were about forty-five minutes south of Zadar, thirty minutes north of Split on the A1 highway when we drove over the Datoteck crescent arched bridge. The bridge which stands high above a pristine bay gave […]
I booked an Airbnb for three months in Zadar, from June to August. I made the plans to stay in the area the whole time. However, when we arrived at our home in Zadar Onawa was tired and lethargic for the first two days. I thought her illness might be due to overheating because of […]
While staying in Zadar over the summer we visited several of the nearby Croatian islands. Ugljan is one of the largest with several towns on it. Unlike most Croatian islands Ugljan has its own water source. The first time we went to Preko, a small town on the island, it was via a late afternoon […]
My mother, friend and I planned to stay in Zadar from June to September, but my dog Onawa was diagnosed with Addison’s disease causing us to cut our stay short. Our departure became the end of July making our next stop Zagreb for a few weeks for her treatment. We found many reasons to love […]
In July 2019 my mom and I were in Zadar, Croatia. A few weeks earlier, mom had visited the nearby island of Pag and raved about it, in particular a special cheese she had tried for the first time. She was planning to return and convinced me to join her for the forty-five-minute bus trip […]
One of the friends I made while in Belgrade told me about a pizza place which competes with Italian and other European pizza chefs and wins. He told me about all the interesting types of pizzas and the wall covered in awards. The restaurant is in Pirot Serbia, it’s about two and a half hours […]
In June 2019 my mother, friend Fiorella and I rented a car to drive from Belgrade to Boljevac, a small town in central Serbia, where we planned to explore for two weeks. Boljevac is next to Rtanj mountain, famous for its pyramid shape and legends of vampires, aliens and for healing tea. We stayed in […]
