Slovenia

Kutrubes Travel planned an exquisitely complicated tour for me through “eastern” Europe, and loved my time in Slovenia.

The highlight of Slovenia, is just walking through its spectacular downtown. If there is a more beautiful and uplifting town in Europe, I haven’t seen it.

As Slovenia is known for its natural beauty adventurers will enjoy the waterfalls, mountains, caves and lakes located in the Savinja and Šalek Valley.

Cool bridge with locks on it … signifying love!

Loved the bridge with the locks on it … this bridge was the first and inspired MANY others afterwards.

Who knew you could get milk from a vending machine?!

East Timor

(Visited in 2017) You just couldn’t make up this country’s past: colonized by the Portuguese, declared their independence in 1975, and then 9 days later the Indonesians invade East Timor. For the next 25 years they rebelled against the Indonesian occupation,...

Tonga

Country Information: In the Kingdom of Tonga (Tonga), an archipelago of over 170 islands with 36 of them inhabited. It’s capital is Nukuʻalofa and its main languages are Tongan and English. About 104,000 people live here (2011). The main religion is the Free Wesleyan...

Ireland

Country Information: The capital of Ireland is Dublin and the country’s population is about 5 million (2022). The dominant religion is Roman Catholicism and the official languages are Irish Gaelic and English. Ireland is 4 hours ahead of EST. Jim's Perspectives: A...