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Could I Live Here? Split Edition
If the romantic winding streets of Venice and the beaches of Mykonos had a baby and it somehow came out more attractive than both of them, it would be Split. The center of the city is an actual marble palace, which has been repurposed for modern shopping and dining. What more can a girl and…
Getting into an accident in Croatia
The drivers of Zagreb are insane. When you’re walking around Zagreb and you have to cross any intersections, you’re playing with your life. It’s even worse to be in a car with a driver from Zagreb. So it was only a matter of time before we got into an accident. And sure enough, it took…
Visiting Plitvice Lakes National Park
Ever since I got Pinterest, I’ve been seeing pictures of Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia, which is wondrous place where 16 lakes meet creating hundreds of waterfalls cascading above, below, and everywhere around you. So I was pretty sure it was something I wanted to do at some point in my life. But when…
Could I Live Here? Zagreb Edition
I’m going to be honest. The only reason I even came to Zagreb is because I wanted a comfortable stop-over between Slovakia and the beaches of Croatia. When you read about travel to Croatia, you read a lot about Plitvice Lakes and about beautiful beaches. There isn’t a lot of hype about the country’s capital,…
Tips for taking buses in Europe
Europe is fairly small, especially coming from a country like the United States and there are ample forms of transportation to get you from any one city to another. With all the trains and low-cost airlines, it might be easy to overlook the bus as an option, but it’s quite a good one… as long…
Europe, we need to talk about your service
There’s a lot of things I love about Europe, but the table service at restaurants is not one of them. I know I’m generalizing and there are some countries that are more guilty of this than others (Belgium, I’m looking at you), but even in cities like Amsterdam, where the service is pretty good overall, you stand…
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