12 Things You Need To Know Before Traveling to Dubrovnik and Split (Croatia)

Dubrovnik and Split are two of Croatia’s most popular tourist destinations — and with the high season coming soon, there’s a good chance you’ll be planning a trip here.   (Much like other Need to Know posts, this one’s focused on the lessons we learned, in the...

Experience blindness and type some Braille at Zagreb’s Typhlological Museum (Zagreb, Croatia)

I thought it was a typo on the sign at first, to be honest. How ironic, I thought, that the sign for the Typological Museum would have a typo in it. It’s not a typo, though — derived from typhlos (‘blind’) and logos (‘thought’ or ‘reason’), the Typhlological Museum...

At this museum of mushrooms, what can kill you is just a few centimeters away (Zagreb, Croatia)

Yep — you read that right, a mushroom museum. Call it Muzej gljiva if you prefer using the Croatian name, and think of it as an education center. This collection exists thanks to the hard work of Dr. Romano Božac. From starting a mushroom association in 1983, a...

Destination: the other OTHER Roman coliseum — this one’s in Pula, Croatia

What’s with the ‘other OTHER’ title? Awhile back we enjoyed one of the Roman coliseum in El Jem, Tunisia. I called that one the ‘other’ Roman coliseum, after the much more widely known Coliseum in Rome. That makes this one the other OTHER Roman coliseum. I’ll note...

From Canada to Croatia: the journey behind the journey

So we’re sitting at my in-law’s dining room table in Nova Scotia… Getting ready for the next big adventure. We had just completed an epic road trip from Nova Scotia to Toronto to Key West — and back to Nova Scotia. I’ve only gotten around to blogging about a...

Destination: Barcelona — your ultimate guide to 10 of the city’s weirdest places

Barcelona ended up being one of my favorite cities across our epic European trip. Here are 10 of the reasons why. Erotica Museum Plenty of adults-only stuff here, and plenty of cultures are represented here getting busy. The highlight involves some of the earliest...

Where To Go Instead: 9 Famous Places and their Better Alternatives

Some well-known places are genuinely wonderful. Some just have a good marketing team. Here are nine lesser-known places to check out and have a better time for less money or hassle. Go on, admit it — part of the reason you might travel to a place is to say you’ve been...

Open once in a blue moon — places you really need to plan ahead to reach

Some places are so awesome that the world can’t handle them being open all the time. Plan ahead to see these places and you’ll be rewarded. I’ve collected a number of places from bloggers around the world, and added a couple from my own travels See the Buddhist temple...

A tale of three car museums: the Lamborghini, the Ferrari, and the… Trabi?!

While traveling across Europe, we took in three distinctive styles of cars and the museum dedicated to them each. Two are worthy, but there’s a clear winner in this blogger’s opinion. Which one? Go on, guess. First, the Lamborghinis… Officially called the Centre...

Destination: The Museum of Historical Chamber Pots and Toilets (Prague, Czechia)

Yep, you’re reading that right — hidden in Prague is the world’s largest collection of chamber pots. 2,000 pieces, 1,700 chamber pots, 120 toilets, and “other curiosities”. There are chamber pots made for Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, the Chinese emperor of the...