After 66 nights outside the Schengen Zone (see our Italy to Hungary post for Schengen rules), we headed back to spend the balance of the year (mid-October to Christmas) in Italy, Malta, Spain and Portugal. We averaged $191/day Canadian ($140 USD / €141) for this leg of our travels (1 night in Dubrovnik, the overnight…
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From the Istria Peninsula our next destination in Croatia was the island of Hvar, but we scheduled a couple of overnight stops along the way – Zadar and Split. I won’t bore you again with the history of Croatia, since I did that already in our previous post on the Istria Peninsula, but feel I…
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We followed the E70 from Belgrade to Zagreb entering Croatia at the Granični prelaz Batrovci (SRB) / Granični prijelaz Bajakovo (HR) crossing where for two hours we inched along in bumper to bumper traffic, but counted ourselves lucky that we weren’t transport trucks. That line was at a complete standstill and stretched for miles; we…
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