It isn’t as if we didn’t know Dubrovnik might not be an enjoyable city. When researching Croatia we read that a lot of people disliked it. But, that’s also what we heard about Bangkok, a city we loved. Plus, it’s technically still shoulder season, so we figured why not? It’s a good thing we had two full days though, otherwise we would have left hating the city. But with a little effort avoiding the crowds generated by the cruise ships can redeem this city. It’s a shame though, it’s gorgeous here, but the mass tourism is absolutely out of control. Just google image “crowds in Dubrovnik.” It’s upsetting. Continue reading
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Tallinn
A short and uneventful ferry ride from Helsinki brought us to Tallinn and our first glimpse of the Baltic countries. The difference between the two cities is immediate, the ferry harbour is littered with soviet era remnants, old town Tallinn is picturesque with winding cobblestone paths and colorful old buildings, unlike the very modern feel of Helsinki. Tallinn is also a lot less expensive and as such is known as somewhat of a party city, which is clearly what we came for. Continue reading
Helsinki
Aside from images of Finland’s Laplands we didn’t have much of a mental image of Finland. We’ve met people from all over the world, but neither of us can recall meeting a Finnish person. So when we visualized the country it was mostly blank, and we had little expectations of the furthest east Scandanavian country. We chose Helsinki in part because it made sense flightwise, but also to finish up traveling to all of Scandanavia. Continue reading
Bergen
Norway wasn’t really on our travel list, while we’ve long wanted to explore the country and famous fjords we figured it was out of our price range. But when we started looking at where to travel and found the Bergen City Marathon was on the first weekend of our trip we decided to brave the unpredictable weather and high costs and head north. While it may seem a bit odd to travel to Norway for a race (we both ran the 5k), we’ve traveled for less (aka that one time we flew to Denmark for lunch), and combining running and travel has been a lot of fun. We get to explore areas we normally wouldn’t, and jumping into a local race is a pretty unique way to explore a city.
Colliding With The Earth 