Alex Kretzschmar

I'm writing this back in England having had a few days to postulate on our trip. My intention is to write up our experiences in the Balkans in a separate post that'll let you know the bits we really liked and the bits that were meh. Anyway back to this post, Rome. On our honeymoon we spent several days in Rome and did the "Caeser shuffle" then. We only had the day here before our flight at 9pm. After we'd had a lie in that was quickly reduced to half! I've always been fascinated by the Roma

Day 11. We're very much on the homeward leg of our holiday now leaving Dubrovnik behind today. This morning I walked to a nearby bakery and bought some pastries and juice. The view from our apartment was so good it seemed a waste not to use it. Again we have Airbnb to thank for this cracking place and I've generally been delighted with the quality of the accommodation on this trip. We were queueing for a shuttle bus to the Airport when an agent appeared in a silver minibus. He shouted at

Day 10. Today we said goodbye to Montenegro and our hire car. We covered around 900km in that car and I reckon the 1.0 engine is still gasping for air! This meant the beginning of our epic trip home via Dubrovnik, then Rome tomorrow and finally to Luton on Tuesday evening. The hire car had to be returned to Tivat airport for 10am but the next bus to Dubrovnik wasn't until 15.40 in a town called Herceg Novi. Getting to Herceg Novi with no a car wasn't without it's challenges! We took a taxi

Day 6. We left Kolašin (pronounced Collar-shin) this morning in beautiful sunshine at around 25C, it felt like a perfect British summers day. I got a picture of the little wooden bridge we had to cross to get to our hotel, not sure it'd fly in the EU! We headed North once again up E80 towards Mojkovac this time taking the left turn towards Žablajak (pronounced Zj-ab-yak). Our route took us along a stunning canyon carved by the River Tara. Cat took this pic. We saw a sign for a monaster

Day 5. Time to start exploring the mountains around Kolašin. First, breakfast though. The centre of town isn't very big. There are only around 6,000 inhabitants according to the Montenegrin tourist board. The economy here is yet to succumb to large chains, bakeries are where you buy bread and butchers = meat. I've never experienced this in England and is one of the biggest differences here. We bought some delicious looking sausage (well, they almost all are) and some eggs. I had to get a pictu

This morning we said goodbye to Podgorica and collected our hire car. After a swift 6.5km trip in a taxi to the airport to collect the motor (for only 6EUR) we stopped off at a local supermarket to gather provisions for the day ahead. Our plan was to drive the 80km with an estimated journey time of just over an hour. Me being me decided to take the scenic route, and boy was it ever... Before we left Podgorica though we drove right past its Cathedral. I can't think of any of other city I'v

It is perhaps fitting that tonights final honeymoon blog post comes to you from the comfort of a train. We’re back in England and headed for Norwich to meet Catherine’s parents where we will be reunited with our darling little Robbie Dog! 4 weeks ago when I booked this train from London - Norwich the upgrade fee from 2nd to 1st class was… 20p. So, we’re sat in 1st class enjoying the free wifi and extra spacious (for England anyway) seats. I reckon these seats are about as spacious as your avera

The most beautiful Starbucks around? Opéra in Paris. Eurostar at 18:43 - all the museums are closed on a Tuesday! DOH!! So, we are doing some major time killing coffee shop hopping.

Good evening everybody! So, it has come. The final night abroad. Thank you all so much for reading whilst we’ve been away - all the emails have been really positive and I think you’ve all had fun reading. I know I’ve certainly had fun writing these posts, and it saves a lot of explaining to you all over the coming weeks! You were there, with us! This morning we pulled into Paris on the second of our two sleeper trains. It took a grand 15 hours from Berlin meaning we arrived at 11.15am. It took

Feeling very cosmopolitan as I write this post tonight… Sat in Munich Hauptbahnhof drinking a Starbucks and leeching off their free wifi for the next 2 hours until our sleeper train to Berlin. We’ve had a lovely day today - quite stress free and it got off to a good start. The hotel we stayed at last night had a pool on the top floor which over looked the Tirol valley - and at 7.30am there was nobody in it which is always better than company. So after our refreshing dip in the pool, it was time

Innsbruck is a lovely place and Austria has welcomed us with a mistake in our favour! The hotel accidentally confused my current booking with my old cancelled one (for the same hotel, only a more expensive room). At check-in, they put us in the more expensive room only realising after they’d done so. Meaning, we get a palatial sized room (with sofa, and lounge area) for the cost of a standard! WIN WIN! To add to that, the housekeeping staff had folded our bedding into a heart shape (I put honeym

We are currently stopped in Brenner station. 4500ft above sea level. There is an important mountain pass goes through the area and the motorway E45 runs along some very impressive bridges. Some almost 1km long! Anywho, this is the last 9 minutes we will spend in Italy so I guess we say – CIAO?!