Monday, May 11, 2026 Route: Žabljak area → mountain pass attempt → organic farm breakfast → Ostrog Monastery → Kotor, Montenegro The day began with unfinished business. The mountain pass…
Sunday, May 10, 2026 Route: Mostar → Sutjeska/Tjentište → Montenegro → Piva Canyon → Žabljak area I chose the scenic route. This is important, because several hours later that sentence…
Saturday, May 9, 2026 Route: Sedra area → Trogir → Salona → Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina This was the kind of day that looked reasonable on a map. Maps are…
Friday, May 8, 2026 Route: Sedra Holiday Resort → Plitvice Lakes National Park → Sedra Holiday Resort Plitvice Lakes National Park is what happens when Croatia decides subtlety is unnecessary.…
Thursday, May 7, 2026 Route: Salzburg, Austria → Ljubljana, Slovenia → Sedra Holiday Resort, Croatia The road trip began with optimism, which is always dangerous. Daniel and I were leaving…
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 Wednesday, May 6, 2026, was one of those travel days that was not really about famous monuments, ticketed attractions, or big dramatic landscapes. It was about…
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 After the cliff-climbing, lake-floating, mountain-gazing adventure of the day before, we decided that Tuesday, May 5, 2026, should begin slowly. Not “we’re exhausted and cannot move”…
Monday, May 4, 2026 On Monday, May 4, 2026, we had a relaxing morning in Salzburg. After the train adventure the day before, nobody needed an aggressive start. Around noon,…
Sunday, May 3, 2026 On Sunday, May 3, 2026, we woke up in Vilshofen, Germany, and this was the morning we left the Avalon Passion. After a week of letting…
Saturday, May 2, 2026 On Saturday, May 2, 2026, we arrived in Passau, Germany, our first German stop on the cruise. By this point, the Danube had carried us through…