Belgrade a la moment

Upon arrival in Belgrade, we realized we had done zero planning of how how we wanted to spend our time; therefore, Belgrade was going to be a spontaneous visit and our next stop in Brasov, Romania, was shaping out the same way. While the hotel receptionist at Hotel Indigo in Belgrade provided us with some…

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Flying to Belgrade

Brendan and I loved the Balkans so much from the May 2019 trip (Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, and Bosnia & Herzegovina), that we decided to set out there again, but this time go farther East – flying to Belgrade, Serbia, While we were in Sarajevo on our past Balkans trip, we had also met a traveler…

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Last day on the MS Fram

Today was the bittersweet final day (Feb 24, 2022) on the MS Fram and our spectacular Antarctic expedition with Hurtigruten. We were definitely ready for our trip to be over, but not necessarily our vacation. If all our flights go according to plan we’ll have almost two days to recover, but we could have probably…

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Falkland Islands Albatross

Today was our very last landing day on our Antarctica expedition (Feb 23, 2022), with stops at West Point and New Island in the Falkland Islands, with lots of Albatross to view. We had an earlier landing this morning, so got up around 7AM and were down to breakfast early, having the usual. We docked…

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Falkland Islands hiking

For our last few landings we would visit various landing points for Falkland Islands hiking, and we arrived at Carcass Island around 730AM on February 22, 2022. After breakfast, we disembarked around 945AM. This Falkland Islands hiking route was a 6 mile roundtrip walk over meandering hills, and was clearly marked, as it showed signs…

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The Falkland Islands at last

After some rough days and nights at sea in the South Ocean, we were overjoyed to arrive and start docking at Stanley, the largest city, in the Falkland Islands around 730AM on Feb 21, 2022 – and for once we were actually up and on deck to see it. There wasn’t much to see though,…

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