Stunning Struga

We walked into Struga almost daily.  It was a beautiful, 40-minute walk along Lake Ohrid on a wide, perfectly maintained sidewalk/boardwalk to get to town.  It was also almost exactly 10,000 steps roundtrip to walk to the closest edge of town where the library was located. The walk also gave us the opportunity to interact with some neighbourhood puppy strays […]

Living on a Lake

We spent two days driving and exploring through Serbia, overnighting in Leskovac.  It was gorgeous!  When we had to cancel our trip to Bulgaria when they announced at the beginning of the year that they were joining Schengen 12 days before we were set to arrive there for part of our non-Schengen travel time, we debated between Serbia or North […]

Hiking at Lake Skadar

Hiking and walking are some of our all-time favourite things to do.  Over the years and, more specifically, over this year abroad, we have done a lot of walking and hikes.  We had heard Lake Skadar was beautiful and there were some nice hikes you could do around there.  I did some research and found a moderate difficulty loop that […]

Beyond Budva

From our spot in Budva, we explored a few areas.  To the south, we found Sveti Stefan.  It was such a beautiful spot!  We first saw it on a long walk along the beach to the south of Budva in our first couple of days in this area.  We didn’t quite walk that far, but it immediately intrigued us as […]