Bryn There, Done That

Hello, Bryn here. I’ve been procrastinating on this blog, as usual, however this one has been especially difficult to sit down and do. I have been trying to soak up every last minute as our time is quickly coming to an end (whaaaat)?! We last spoke from Split, Croatia, on our way to Amsterdam. This stop wasn’t originally on our itinerary but we thought it would be an easy and quick detour on our way to London, with cheap connecting flights. Well. It was quick, but not easy or cheap, as we missed our flight out. I will get to this in a bit... The houses of Amsterdam One of MANY canal views. The weather was sunny but quite cold as we weren’t used to anything below 22 degrees for quite awhile. We noticed everything to be very high tech, including our first dinner where we had endless beer and wine controlled by scanning a hotel card. I got a little too excited and the next morning took awhile to get going...We spent two full days there and explored the beautiful canal-lined streets ...

Hello! Mitchell here, to tell you about rally racing in Croatia. Okay, we were not really racing, but it seemed that everyone else on the road was! Speed limit signs are merely suggestions, speed camera warnings are only bluffs, and solid lines don’t mean a thing.  We started our 10-day Volkswagen Up! rental in the capital, Zagreb.  (Surprising side note: we saw more snakes in our first few days in Croatia than we had in all of our time spent in Australia and Southeast Asia combined! Vipers, mostly.) Fortunately for us, everything worth checking out in Croatia’s capital city was confined to a 3 block radius around the main square.  The highlight was definitely visiting the illusion museum, with dozens of eye-boggling photo ops and difficult puzzles (Speden would’ve loved it). We took our time south, into the mountains that boasted Plitvice Lakes National Park. We were more than a little unimpressed when it started to torrential downpour and there was ...