Penny-Family on Tour

There couldn't have been a more beautiful city for our last stop: After a drive through dense, gray fog fields to the east of Zagreb, the sky opens up behind the Risnjak...

With fresh tires, we roll down the mountains and snake our way through forests, fields, and smaller towns to Belgrade. We have a nice apartment in the center and even though we...

With another negative PCR test (which unfortunately no one at the border or in the hotel wanted to see) we enter Serbia and drive to the Kapaonik mountains via Nis. We have...

National Palace of Culture

Without any problems or major controls, we now enter Bulgaria for the third time and initially land in a small village in the Central Balkan near Veliko Tarnowo, where Elli and...

After the many impressions of Istanbul, we are aiming for a quiet place by the sea: We have already read that the Aegean coast is supposed to be very built-up and we thought of...

We have heard a lot about Istanbul, including warnings about the wild traffic. That's why we set off extra early and hope to get to Turkey faster at the small border crossing in...

Ghost town Sozopol

View from Ano Pareio over the Kerkini Lake

Already on Monday we continue north to spend a few days at Lake Kerkini near the Bulgarian border. The route passes through Thessaloniki and we decide to stop there for at least...

After leaving Athens with a hint of nostalgia, we feel like explorers again and enjoy the drive towards Meteora through diverse landscapes: through vast plains with cotton...

After our visitors have left, we want to return to Athens for two days to think about our next steps in peace. But we feel a slight travel fatigue after these intense days with...

From Athens, we now head to the Peloponnese, and it's clear that we'll make a stop in Corinth. We just saw a post about it and now we want to see the depth of the canal for...

In the beginning, there was chaos. This is how Percy Jackson begins his narration of Greek mythology, which we listen to on our journey past Mount Olympus to Athens, so that we...

Sea

If there was ever a plan for our journey, it was supposed to take us through Albania to Greece, where we have an appointment in September. But since Corona, it is clear that...

On our way southeast, we drive from the sea through breathtaking panoramic roads to the inland of Montenegro. We spend our lunch break in Podgorica, the capital, where there is...

Quiet days at the fjord of the Mediterranean Sea

The small island of Šolta with its abundant nature, turquoise sea, and day trips to Split and Šibenik is the perfect start to our big journey.