Our first trip to the year has taken us back to Greece. Our plans for the year are less set than in past years. We really want to get to Turkey before we head back towards France. The Earthquake in Turkey made us decide to postpone our planned trip to Turkey and hopefully move it to the fall. We are planning to spend more time in Greece and cross of one of Tons bucket list destinations the island of Crete. We are also planning on heading into Bulgaria and if time allows Romania. Stay tuned to see where we end up for the year.
June 4, 2023 Nea Makri GR
This is the last night in François this trip. Today was spent preparing to leave. As usual Ton does most of the work packing the
June 3, 2023 Nea Makri GR
Another short post today. We drove 420 km’s today to our unofficial Greek hometown of Nea Makri. The drive was uneventful but extremely expensive. Today
June 2, 2023 Litochoro GR
It’s a short one today. When we checked in we noticed that they had a big Maytag commercial washer, so today we washed all of
June 1, 2023 Litochoro GR
Today we are camped between the Aegean Sea and Mt. Olympus in Greece. It was another day of long driving, but today was not that
May 31, 2023 Rila BU
After two days of heavy driving we slowed down today. Rila Monastery was one of our must see destinations when we planned our trip. On
May 30, 2023 Sofia BU
We are in full on road warrior mode now. We spent last night debating how many kilometers we could do in one day. After our
May 29, 2023 Koshov BU
Today was a long day of driving. We planned on six hours, and it turned into 8. We knew that this trip was going to
May 28, 2023 Sighisoara RO
Sighisoara is another Saxon city in Romania. It is one of the most well preserved medieval cities in Europe as war mostly has missed it
May 27, 2023 Sighisoara RO
Today was a driving day. We had one more site on our tour of Romania we wanted to get to. When I punched Sighisoara into
May 26, 2023 Ocna Sugatag RO
We are in the far north of Romania in the Maramures region that is considered the most isolated in the country. It is beautiful mountain
May 25, 2023 Ocna Sugatag RO
When we first started traveling we were always focused on the places we were going to see and the cool things we were going to
May 24, 2023 Cluj RO
Today we headed into the city center of Cluj to check out the second largest city in Romania. The campground we are staying in is
May 23, 2023 Cluj RO
Our plan for the day was to get going early so we could visit the historical park near the campground before we set off for
May 22, 2023 Sibiu RO
When we arrived Ton was very happy to see that they had a dryer to go along with a washer. Today our plan was to
May 21, 2023 Sibiu RO
Sibiu is another one of the 7 Saxon cities in Romania. It is a nice valley city with the Carpathian Mountains in the background. As
May 20, 2023 Sibiu RO
We got off to an early start today as we wanted to visit Bran Castle before setting off for our next planned stop Sibiu. Some
May 19, 2023 Brasov RO
Today was a day for tourism. Our Romanian friends strongly recommended we visit Brasov. It is famous for its Black Church and its charming old
May 18, 2023 Harman RO
There are places whose name brings forth images that make you feel like you have accomplished something. Today we are in Transylvania, how cool is
May 17, 2023 Bucharest RO
We woke up to a pretty solid rain. A quick check of the weather showed rain on and off all day. Earlier in the trip
May 16, 2023 Bucharest RO
Today we moved north to Bucharest. We are not quite done with Bulgaria, but we decided to pop up into Romania for a couple of
May 15, 2023 Koshov BU
Ton and I have been married 41 years but we still mis-communicate with each other. The plan this morning was to head to Bucharest and
May 14, 2023 Koshov BU
The image above is from the front window of François tonight. Its places like this that make the whole motorhoming/RVing thing worth while. For those
May 13, 2022 Shkorpilovtsi BU
We made it to the Black Sea. After a slow departure because we had to say good bye to several new friends we reluctantly moved
May 12, 2023 Arbanasi BU
Our day started with a visit to a local mechanics shop recommended by Nick and Nicki from the campground. Nicki called ahead to say we
May 11, 2023 Veliko Tarnovo BU
We have been cheating a bit in our planning for Bulgaria. One of Ton’s best friends from Thailand is coming to Bulgaria with a tour
May 10, 2023 Dragizhevo BU
Last night was the coldest night of the trip. In addition to a hard rain the temperature dropped into the low 40’s for the night.
May 9, 2023 Skobelevo BU
Today has been an interesting day. We woke up to rain, and it has continued to rain all day. We decided to head into the
May 8, 2023 Plovdiv BU
Plovdiv definitely needed another day, so we headed in late morning. Today is the final day of a long weekend, most of the stores were
May 7, 2023 Plovdiv BU
I’ve always felt that I was a seasoned traveller who had a pretty broad knowledge of many countries history and geography. I had studied Bulgaria
May 6, 2023 Plovdiv BU
We decided to move on to Plovdiv this morning. We debated whether to go back into Sofia for one more day, but we were afraid
May 5, 2023 Sofia BU
I had low expectations for Sofia. I think my views of the former Soviet Bloc countries are sometimes skewed by my experience serving in the
May 4, 2023 Sofia BU
Once again we woke up and realized we were nearly halfway thru our trip and had not reached the country we had picked as the
May 3, 2023 Thessaloniki GR
A couple of days ago I wrote about the great weather we have been having and ended it by hoping I didn’t jinx us. When
May 2, 2023 Thessaloniki GR
Today we moved to the second biggest city in Greece. Thessaloniki has a population of about 2 million people and is located in North East
May 1, 2023 Ioannina GR
Just as we were settling in last night it began to rain quite hard. Usually we end up talking about the weather quite a bit
April 30, 2023 Ioannina GR
After 6 days of enjoying the beach at Drepano we needed to get going towards Thessaloniki. On Wednesday François needs his annual warranty inspection and
April 29,2023 Drepano GR
As we get older we are finding it easier to relax in one place for a few days in a row. Our plan last night
April 28, 2023 Drepano GR
We had no plans for today. Frankly we are kind of marking time until we move towards Thessaloniki in northern Greece. The problem is the
April 27, 2023 Drepano GR
Today was a maintenance day. We are starting to think about leaving Greece. Though we have one more major stop we have to/want to make,
April 26, 2023 Nafplio GR
Today we visited the town of Nafplio which is located a short bus ride from the campsite we are staying at. Nafplio like so many
April 25, 2023 Drepano GR
Today was a beach bum day. After a relaxing morning we walked to the next town called Tolon which was supposed to have a beautiful
April 24, 2023 Drepano GR
We shifted down the coast about 90 km’s to an area with nice beaches and a couple of interesting towns. When we arrived at the
April 23, 2023 Corinth GR
Today was a day for tourism. We visited an engineering marvel, another ancient Greek site, and participated in one of our favorite activities in Europe-wine
April 22, 2023 Corinth GR
Our overnight ferry ride was uneventful, except our room was really cold. About 1:30 I woke up and closed the AC vent in the room,
April 21, 2023 Heraklion GR
Today is our last day on Crete, but the ferry is not scheduled to leave until 9pm, so we had time on our hand. Ton
April 20, 2023 Agios Nikolas GR
Today was another sea to mountains day. We gave our little Hyundai a good workout, even though we drove less than 100 miles altogether. We
April 19, 2023 Rethymno GR
Today we visited two cities that are a study in contrasts. Rethymno is a hip coastal city full of restaurants, cute streets, and tourist shops
April 18, 2023 Heraklion GR
Our Easter break ended today as we headed into the city to check out the city center in Heraklion and to visit the site of
April 17, 2023 Heraklion GR
Today will be a short one as we more or less just hung around the campground because it was a holiday in Greece. We spent
April 16, 2023 Heraklion GR
Today is Easter in Greece. It turns out it is possibly the most important holiday in Greece and is kind of a combination of 4th
April 15, 2023 Heraklion GR
Our plan for today was to move about 70 km’s down the coast to a town called Rethymno. It is another port town with a
April 14, 2022 Western Crete GR
Today we wanted to cover a lot of ground and check out some of the more famous beaches in Western Crete. One was on the
April 13, 2023 Chania GR
We returned to Chania today to explore more of this beautiful city. Ton mentioned that it was pretty, but the Mediterranean Sea is blessed with
April 12, 2023 Chania GR
After all of the drama of getting on the ship yesterday, leaving today was a piece of cake. After a good nights sleep in our
April 11, 2023 Piraeus GR
There are good days and bad days when traveling. Today was a mix of both but mostly bad. The day began for me when at
April 10, 2023 Nea Makri GR
Another day hanging around Nea Makri. This trip we were trying to give ourselves time to recover from jet lag, but we probably overdid it
April 9, 2023 Nea Makri GR
Todays post is going to be short and sweet. I got up at 5 am to watch the Timbers play Vancouver on Apple TV which
April 8, 2023 Nea Makri GR
We are starting to recover from jet lag. I woke at a pretty normal time, Ton slept in a little later but that may have
April 7, 2023 Nea Makri GR
Today was another day battling jet lag. Ton and I were having a nice conversation at 2:30 in the morning, when we should have been
April 6, 2023 Nea Makri GR
We have learned that we need to build in a couple of recovery days at the beginning of our trips and we made good use
April 5, 2023 Nea Makri GR
We spent last night in the Holiday Inn at the Athens Airport because we arrived too late to take care of the things we need
April 4, 2023 Athens GR
We are back in Greece. Happily we had no problems with any of our airlines, all of the flights took off and landed on time.