#1. Mountains. Almost every picture you will see of the Caucasus region will feature gorgeous mountains. Georgia in particular has been featured on various social media “listicles” and almost always there is a photo of Kazbegi with the iconic Gergeti Trinity church in front of it. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are crossed by mountains, both …
On this, the very first Tauni & Michele trip, we were planning to hit up as many countries as we could (spending at least 24 hours in each), while trying to help Tauni hit ’50 countries before age 50.’ We both work full time and had ONE week. Those lucky Europeans have so many budget …
We took an 8-ish hour drive from Skopje, North Macedonia to Sofia, Bulgaria, which included two stops: quaint Osogovo Monastery in the North Macedonian hills, and magnificent Rila Monastery about 2 hours out of Sofia. Our personable MyDayTrips.com driver Ivo dropped us off at our hotel. And so our Sofia adventure began! Sofia was one …
Chișinău [pronounced Keesh-ee-now, or we heard it as Keesh-ee-no ] TAUNI: We didn’t know what to expect from Chisinau– we had done our research, like always, but Moldova felt much more mysterious than the other countries. It was cited as the ‘least traveled country in Europe’ multiple times – but that wasn’t going to stop …