After we left Greenland, we had a mixture of at-sea days and port days. We had two days in Atlantic Canada: St. John’s, Newfoundland and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Between these two ports, we made our way briefly back to France when we visited St. Pierre. It felt surreal to step [...]
Read MoreAfter our early departure from Iceland, we spent a day sailing straight for the fjords of Greenland. We took shelter in the calm waters of the fjords for two days instead of doing the two extra days in Iceland. We saw tons of icebergs, glaciers, mountains, and waterfalls as we [...]
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Hello, we’re Micheka and Jon and we live in London, Ontario where we are pursuing our respective careers in the fields of forensic engineering and transportation engineering.
Since 2009, we’ve travelled to Europe seven times – for backpacking, for lounging, to get married / honeymoon, to cruise, and to have family time! In 2023-2024, we return for our family sabbatical year!
Follow along as we continue our journey!
Read MoreOne of the many outstanding recommendations from Valentina was to go out to the mountains and explore Vivchani, the natural springs there, and to eat at Via Ignatia restaurant. She was three-for-three with those suggestions! Vivchani was only 20 minutes by car, so we went out there three times. On our first trip there, we stopped for a coffee at […]
Anyone who knows us in the slightest will doubtlessly know that food and drinks are some of the things we live for! We are not people who care a whole lot about material things, but rather experiences, good food, and yummy drinks. And wow, Struga was outstanding for checking all of these boxes!! Along the way into Struga, we passed […]
We have loved getting to experience new foods and cuisines on this year away. And North Macedonian has been some of our favourite food. It is such a mix of Greek, Balkan, and Turkish-inspired foods given where they are located and the 500 years they were occupied by the Ottoman Empire. There is such variety and flavour. And being inland […]
We love to walk. Walking along Lake Ohrid to Struga from where we are staying a few minutes east of Struga is so pleasant. And we knew the path continued on and thought it would be nice to walk and explore further. Which we did. Multiple times, because it was such an amazing walk! Past the main river and beachfront […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
After our first two weeks in Kotor we moved to Becici, just on the outskirts of Budva, for the last three weeks of our time in Montenegro. We were so disappointed to leave the beauty of Kotor and the surrounding area but were feeling optimistic about being right on the Adriatic Sea where the temperatures would be even hotter than […]
Before arriving in Kotor, we were well acquainted with the term “Cats of Kotor”. When the girls were devastated to leave all their kitty cat friends in Morocco, we were able to soothe them slightly with the promise that Kotor was famous for all the cats they had. And wow, do they ever have a lot of cats! However, unlike […]