It’s decided! Whenever you arrive after dark somewhere new, the best gift you can give yourself is a pre-hired car to take you to your destination. Kevin, Sonia, Kim and myself arrived to find a greeter holding a sign with our name on it. We promptly transferred all responsibility in getting to our apartment from us to him. We all got in our very spacious Mercedes van and headed off. The driver had a little difficulty finding our place on a very small street that we went up and down 3 times on. Though this was not his fault, it was just hard to see. Our place was great, the newlyweds were there, ready for us to crash their honeymoon after 2 days alone, and had already stocked up on beer, wine and nibbles (really, what ... read more

Ok, we know that some of you think we're still in Dubrovnik celebrating Maja & Steve's wedding...it's for you that we're finishing our blog. We'll be honest and tell you the final blogs were all written last summer, we just never uploaded all the photos and hit the 'publish' button. We're very sorry. New life in Canada got in the way. For almost a year. No excuse, however, and we understand if out of protest you refuse to read the rest of the blogs. Admittedly, part of us still wishes we were stuck in Dubrovnik with everyone. Anywhoo, let's pretend it's last August... We packed up Saturday night and left bright and early on Sunday morning for the Dubrovnik bus station. A rushed breakkie across the street and on the bus we were with Sonia and ... read more

We arrive in Dubrovnik on a stinking hot day. Our only job is to find a man named Viktor around the firestation. He is the man to lead us to our villa in the hills. This proves a most interesting task with many Croatian men being approached with, "VIKTOR?" After 15 minutes contact is finally made and we are on way into the hills, 96 steps up to be exact. Thank goodness there was a pool and cold beer waiting for us at the top. The house was Marina/Aldo, Steve/Maja, Son/Kevin, Us. We had a home cooked meal that night...one thing that we will never take for granted again. We were in Dubrovnik for 5 nights, Tuesday to Sunday, with the wedding on the Friday (to be blogged about seperately). Much of this week was spent ... read more

We arrived at Heathrow from Copenhagen to a lovely scene: Odin waiting for us at the Sofitel! As we had little time between arriving in London and heading out the next day to Croatia we booked a hotel room at T5 and invited Odin along for a sleepover. What a fun night and morning we had with him! We laughed, we caught up on life and we did many silly things (as is normal when one spends time with Odin). We had a few issues with the hotel this time around: couldn't get the internet working, a slight breakfast fiasco that Shane sorted out...boy, I love a man who gets so frustrated with service he won't take no for an answer! But no matter what the issues, we had a fabulous night with Odin and are ... read more

This 2-day stopover Santorini was booked as it was the only way we could get to Athens that worked with our flight to Copenhagen. We had fun again in Santorini and agree with everyone else that it is a beautiful island. We realized that the first time we were here earlier this summer we got caught in what we call the "cruise loop": the boat people (as Mom likes to call them) wander around in a tight circle looking at different shops. You may recall we tried to find a souvlaki stand last time and ended up having a fabulous meal at Nouassa Restaurant. This time we walked around ALL of Fira and found a million souvlaki stands! But we still went back to Nouassa for lunch our first day and had the best lunch of ... read more