2023 Move – Carter-Embry Family

One year of traveling

Ammi Embry — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 12:34:02 +0000

Daniel and I are making plans for our 2024 travel and looking back at what an unreal year 2023 has been. It's not easy living in a new country, and it's even harder knowing your time is limited in your current home. But it's an adventure that has been worth the hardships. We started this […]

October 2023 First Update, Two Busy Weekends

Ammi Embry — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:20:53 +0000

Since we got the long term rental car at the end of September we’ve been exploring the areas in and around Split with gusto. The first weekend of October we went to Marjan Park and Žrnovnica River Promenade. The second weekend of October we had a 4 day weekend and we went back to the […]

Moving to Mertojak

Ammi Embry — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:00:39 +0000

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 […]

Moving out of Old Town

Ammi Embry — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:37:20 +0000

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 […]

First Fortnight in Split

Ammi Embry — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 09:16:11 +0000

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 Internationally

Ammi Embry — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:15:04 +0000

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 […]

Moving Luggage and Personal Belongings Internationally

Ammi Embry — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:00:10 +0000

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 […]

Safely traveling during Covid

Ammi Embry — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:00:15 +0000

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. […]

Acona, Italy & the Jadrolinija Ferry

Ammi Embry — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:16:35 +0000

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 […]