Have you ever been to Heathrow? It's not an airport, it's a bloody city. We landed at Terminal 5 and had to go to the central bus station at Heathrow to get our bus into London. No problem finding the bus, storing the luggage and getting on. 20 minutes later we are still driving to the central bus station. I bet it was half an hour to get from T5 to the CBS. The driver was great, cracking jokes and having a good time. The drive into London Victoria Coach Sta...

I'm back and not typing on a phone keyboard. On day 2 in Belgrade (I kept referring to it as Baghdad, no idea why) we went to the fortress first thing in the morning since the weather was cooperating. It's huge and has lots of armaments such as tanks and rocket launchers placed around the fort. There is also a war museum in the fortress but we decided it wasn't interesting to us. Amazing views of the Danube and Sava rivers. We killed most of the morning wan...

The Hippies are off to Bulgaria & Serbia for our annual month long adventure. We made the reservations in March now the departure date is finally approaching. We fly Aug 26th to London on British Airways. Spend a night in London (a concession to our age, a few years ago we would have done the trip to Varna with no break) then fly to Sofia and on to Varna on the west coast of the Black Sea. The photo is the beach in Varna. A couple of years ago we spent time...