• Our Final Fling in Dubrovnik, Croatia

    Sadly for us, the fun had to end sometime, and Dubrovnik was the final planned stop on our world tour.  But what a great place to wrap it up! Dubrovnik is yet another walled city, but much larger and cooler than any we’d come across.  The walls are really thick…

  • 4 Nights in Kotor, Montenegro

    At the time we decided on Turkey as the place we’d spend a month, Kotor, Montenegro was the other main location in the running.  The country of Montenegro, is brand spankin’ new, and just a few months older than Beckett.  (It was part of the former Yugoslavia.) As part of…

  • A Quick Visit to Tirana, Albania

    Why did the Ullans go to Albania?  To get to Kotor!  (of course!) Near the end of our time in Turkey, Kirsten had hoped to get us over to Kotor, Montenegro, which is one of the locations we’d considered spending a month or two. Eventually she found a $50 flight…

  • Grand Bazaar in Istanbul

    One of the things all of us were most looking forward to in Istanbul was visiting and shopping in the Grand Bazaar.  So much so, that we went to visit it as soon as we arrived in Istanbul.  Maybe it’s because we’d been to Marrakech just a couple of months…