Romania

Romania is a very beautiful nation. Too bad we had a day to explore it.  We visited Romania as part of our road trip in 2018. We decided to visit Romania as a stop on the drive from Budapest, Hungary, to Belgrade, Serbia. Not many cities in Romania are that

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Portugal

We visited Portugal in the summer of 2019. It was the beginning of our four week Europe trip which would span from Lisbon to Rome, and even to Kiev, Tallinn, and Copenhagen. We had a day’s layover in Portugal, so we decided to maximize our time. We took the metro

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Poland

We travelled to Poland twice. Our first trip was to Szczecin, when I was merely six years old. Our second trip was to Warsaw, when I was nine. Age really does make an impact. Both trips to Poland took one day, and the first one was quite short. We spent

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Norway

The road was getting tiring. Other than a bathroom break in IKEA in Sweden — “IKEA was founded there! We have to stop,” said my mom, where we bought some amazing strawberries (“These were as good as the ones in Lithuania,” my mom exclaimed),  the road remained sadly uneventful. Still,

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Northern Macedonia

If you want to visit a Balkan nation, make it Macedonia. I will be using Macedonia for Northern Macedonia because it is easier. The unique Orthodox and Islamic influences from the Ottomans and the Slavs really pulled us towards Macedonia. Since Macedonia left Yugoslavia peacefully, many of its earliest churches

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Netherlands

Rural versus urban, old versus new. We traveled to two different countries when we visited the Netherlands. Our Airbnb was located in a farm, as we wanted to experience rural life, but we were also visiting Amsterdam and Rotterdam, some of the most modern cities in the world. We arrived

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Monaco

We only intended to visit Monaco for a day, however we enjoyed the nation so much that we spent two days instead. Our goal was to visit all European micronations, and Monaco was one on the list. Monaco is the second smallest nation on Earth, but it has the highest

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Italy

Our visit to Italy was spread throughout two different trips. Our reasoning was simple: Italy is such a huge and historical region that covering the nation would take ages. Our first trip to Italy was to the north – the cities of Venice and Milan, which we visited from Salzburg

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Latvia

We had packed our bags the day before. We had left Rome, our home for the past week. We arrived in our plane, and even at the second I arrived, I noticed one huge difference. While Rome was huge and cosmopolitan, Latvia was not. From the small baggage claim and

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Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein is basically a big hill. Or maybe a few hills and valleys. Maybe. Liechtenstein is definitely small no matter what.  “Wow.” I said. The Alps never failed to impress. We were on our way to Liechtenstein, as part of a drive all around the Alps. That day, we had

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