And we are off

Andrew and I are just chilling at our gate at YEG airport waiting for our Westjet flight to Calgary Edmonton has had a mild late spring snowstorm so it is nice to be escaping for warmer climated. After a 3 hour layover we catch a KLM flight to Amsterdam. We arrive at 8 am Amsterdam flight which will be midnight Alberta time. I am not looking forward to the jetlag. After another 3 hour layover we fly Croatian airlines to Zagreb. We will spend 3 days in Zagreb before picking up a car and driving to Ljubljan which is the capital of Slovenia. After 2 days we will drive through the alps separating Slovenia from Italy staying a night in Kobarid. Kobarid is where Ernest Hemingway lived and was wounded in WW1 when working as an ambulance attendant. From Kobarid we will drive to the Asteria peninsula stopping in Skocjan caves. The Asteria peninsula is known for Roman ruins in Pula and the beautiful Mediterranean. Once we have had our fill of the Romans we will drive and spend a night in the Platvice Ntl park which in central Croatia known for it's beautiful cascading waterfalls. We will continue South following the coast to Zadar and Split. We will drop the car off in Split before ferrying out to Korcula which is on a Mediterranean island. From Korcula we will ferry back to Dubrovnik a spectacular walled coastal city. We leave Croatia on May 17 busing to Mostar and then Sarajevo. After our 5 days in Bosnia Hertzogovi we fly to Milan Italy on Ryanair before training it to Bologna and Modena for 5 nights where we will visit the Pagani, Ferrari and Lamborghini car factories and one cheese factory. We fly home on May 28th. This is one of the more complicated trips I have planned with planes trains and autmobiles. Normally I travel much slower than this so I will see how I enjoy this faster paced itinerary.

I will be travelling with my middle son Andrew. Andrew is 21 and has just finished his fourth and last year of engineering school at the University of Alberta. The photo of Andrew and I used for the cover was obviously taken a few years ago when we were both younger. Please keep checking in with the blog as I hope to publish every few days.Please leave your comments. The more people who follow motivates me to blog more.Read more