Our final destination was Rome, Italy. I was most excited to see Rome as it promised to be the most well preserved. For as much as Rome may have change, much of it has also remained. We scheduled tours of the Colosseo and the Vatican Museum beforehand. Taking the Metro and Pickpockets The Metro is
The second country on our list and our main reason for visiting this area of Europe was Skopje, North Macedonia. North Macedonia is a small country that was once part of Yugoslavia. The whole country is small and is travelable in only a few hours. The main highlights of our trip are Canyon Matka, Lake
From Athens, we rode a train to Thessaloniki, which took about 4 hours. We choose economy class which was fairly comfortable with not too many people onboard. There are bathrooms and a train car with food and drinks. The ticket was under $50 for adults and about half that for children. The food and drinks
Why Athens? This year we had a unique opportunity to visit North Macedonia. For those of you don’t know, North Macedonia is just north of Greece. Because our brother-in-law signed on to play professional basketball in North Macedonia for the remainder of the season, we decided to make a trip to visit him and my