Any Excuse to Travel

Explore the world

with this collection of travel posts by Mary Murphy

Spring has sprung and thoughts are turning to summer travel. We’re staying local this year. A recent trip across the border to the wonderful city of Maribor in Slovenia has put a longing on us to see more of that wonderful country. I want to go back to Transylvania and visit other parts of Romania too. I can see short trips by rail and road in my future, saving the big adventure for Sierra Leone later in the year.

Do you have plans?

If you can’t make up your mind about where to go, check some of my posts for inspiration. Feel free to comment if you’ve questions… I’ll do my best to answer them.

Life is short. Make the most of it.

Opatija, Croatia – Revisited

We did something we wouldn’t normally do. We booked into a posh hotel. The second-oldest hotel on the Adriatic – the Scessionist-style Heritage Hotel Imperial.

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This website is a travel blog. It’s not a commercial travel site. You’ll find reviews and links to various services within many of the posts, but they’re unsolicited. We include them only because we found them interesting or useful and want to pass them on to our readers. We don’t receive money from any of the places listed. And we never ask for discounts or free meals or anything in exchange for reviews.

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