Our experience traveling with Go Ahead Tours lived up to their promise of being “a company of passionate adventurers dedicated to creating the best journey for every traveler”. That isn’t an easy promise to deliver on as travelers can expect and be pleased by very different things. Someone’s a foodie, someone’s a shopper and someone likes to be given extensive history and … [Read more...]
Zagreb’s top attractions
As our Go Ahead Tours bus drove into Zagreb and our guide extraordinaire, Tamara, told us its history and we saw the beautiful architecture we couldn't wait to see Zagreb's top attractions. The fact that Zagreb was on our itinerary had been one of the tour's compelling features. As hackneyed as it is to say that somewhere is an undiscovered gem it feels fair to say that Zagreb … [Read more...]
There’s something for almost everyone in Dubrovnik
We just returned from Go Ahead's tour of Croatia and Slovenia and were happily reminded that there are things to see and do in Dubrovnik for almost anyone. This was Blonde's third trip and our second together to this ancient, romantic, busy, UNESCO city on the sunny Adriatic coast. Entering the city's gates on your own can be confusing at first so we were glad to be coddled … [Read more...]
Places we’ve loved: Rovinj, Croatia
Brunette reads travel magazines with the same feverish interest Rupert Murdoch brings to listening to other people's meant-to-be-private phone conversations. A couple years ago she read an itinerary in Sherman's Travel for a trip from Venice to Dubrovnik and proposed a sisterly sojourn. All such proposals get approved. We chose our travel dates and planned to do as much of the … [Read more...]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit
[slideshow] I couldn't pick just one for this week! … [Read more...]