We were very nervous about finding a pet friendly apartment in Split. The listing websites are difficult to navigate and don’t have a lot of options. Luckily Expat in Croatia helps find their clients apartments, and Lucija found us one we fell in love with very quickly. It was actually the first one we looked …
We spent a beautiful few months in Old Town Split right next to Diocletian’s Palace. January — March is beautiful and quiet in Old Town. The tourists start showing up towards the end of March and we didn’t want to stay in the middle of the tourist season in the tourist area. Living a decade …
We arrived in Split in the morning by ferry. The first views of the city were absolutely stunning. It was nearly impossible to believe that we would be living in this place that looked straight out of a fantasy novel for a year. For our first three months here we have an AirBnB apartment across …
Moving pets across country and continental lines is not easy, and bringing a pet into the United Kingdom is particularly difficult. The United Kingdom is one of the only countries in the world that is completely rabies-free. Even their bats and wild animals are rabies-free. They take this extremely seriously for good reason. To enter …
Our luggage is one reason we chose to move on the Queen Mary 2. They do not have a bag limit on what you can take on board as long as it fits in your cabin. This allowed us to take everything we thought we might need for our first 6 months to a year …
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How did we travel for 38 days and not get COVID, Norovirus, RSV, or any of the other things floating around currently? We are perhaps overly cautious, but that works for us and our high anxiety personalities. We scheduled our last COVID booster vaccine so that our peak protection would be while we were traveling. …
Ancona is a beautiful city on the east coast of Italy. It’s all hills with stairs and steep alleys connecting parallel streets. The airport is tiny and reminded me of flying into Key West, except flying over the Alps in a small plane was much smoother than flying from Atlanta to Key West in a …
We needed some down time after we disembarked from the Queen Mary 2. So we got a hotel minutes from the port to spend a few nights in. We started in Room2 in Southampton and it was an adorable hotel with a hipster vibe. We had an amazing suite in my favorite color. The pups …
What we expected and what we got on our transatlantic crossing were very different. We honestly didn’t know what to expect, except for rest and relaxation. And we did not get that. We decided to take the Queen Mary 2 to move to Europe so that we wouldn’t have to fly the pups at all. …
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