Ohrid is the largest city on Lake Ohrid and the eight largest city in North Macedonia. It has a population of 40 000 people. We decided to stay in Ohrid for a month as one gets a great rate...

My goodness car hire in Europe can be horrifically expensive, especially during the peak summer period. We have a future house sit in the very small village of Trdkova in Slovenia in mid May. One...

One of the first places we visited outside of Lake Ohrid was beautiful St Naum. It is known for its beauty and peacocks. It is 15km south of the town of Ohrid and is 1km from the Albanian border. Like...

Tirana is a busy capital city with a population of about 850 000 including the metropolitan district. It is busy with people walking, shopping, eating and drinking coffee outdoors. It just has a very...

1. Albania has stunning beaches The Riviera section of Albania is found in the middle to South of the country and runs from Vlore down to Saranda. At its closest point the Saranda area is 10km from Corfu....

As the past two months have gone by I have made a note on my phone of unusual things I wanted to write about in my second observations. When we were in Straimont Belgium, a maternity bus pulled up outside...

We had wanted to visit for many weeks, but it was a long drive (100 minutes) and we wanted the day to be clear if possible. Mont-Saint-Michel is a small island just off the coast of Normandy. You park...

Dinan is about an hour’s drive from where we are housesitting. It’s full of enchanting, beautiful cobbled alleys. There are plenty of half-timbered houses amongst its twisted higgedly-piggedly streets....

Our dear son Kyle came to join us in Brittany for 10 days. It was his 21st birthday and he wanted to be with us. The weather was not the best and he was having a change of idea of what he wants to do career...

There are four travel related things I have found to be essential. The first two involve helping my back. I have degenerating discs in my back similar to what my Mom had. With two of the vertebrae the...