12 Essential Things to Do in Ljubljana, Slovenia (& Why You’ll LOVE This City!) When I first visited the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana in 2013, I wrote this about the city: “Ljubljana is still relatively undiscovered as a...
Highlights from a Danube River Cruise in Eastern Europe with AmaWaterways Going on a river cruise has long been on my bucket list. There's just something about cruising down a major river, stopping in new...
Postcards from Eastern Europe Last week, I wrote a post about some affordable countries in Europe that you may not have considered traveling to. One of those was...
Visiting the Museum of Broken Relationships I've been to all sorts of museums around the world — museums dedicated to history, art, science, war… But no museum has been quite so...
8 Things You Might Not Know About Bulgaria Chances are, Bulgaria isn’t a country that’s high up on your travel list. It was fairly high on mine before this summer simply because...
Serendipity Saves the Day in Bulgaria It was simply too hot in Plovdiv. Forget about walking around — even just standing in the afternoon sun in Bulgaria's second-largest city was...
My Bulgarian Babas For my whole life, I've referred to my dad's mother not as “Grandma,” but as “Baba” — a term meaning “grandmother” (or “old woman”)...
Beyond Dracula: Reasons to Visit Brasov, Romania The small city of Brasov may not be well-known around the world. In fact, I'm sure many of you have never even heard of...