We flew from Zurich to Dubrovnik with Swiss Air in the afternoon (3pm departure) and a 2.5 hour flight. Flying within Europe is like flying within Australia – you don’t need to be there 3 hours before your flight, probably only 1.5 hours and could get away with an hour depending on the airport size and time of the day for travel. First stop when we arrived in Dubrovnik was picking up our car from Enterprise. I was so hesitant with booking cars in Europe because I had read so many horror...

Country #2 – Switzerland. Our first experience? The Obb Nightjet. As I mentioned at the end of the last blog, there was absolutely no information online about anything relating to check in or the experience itself. All we knew was that we booked and paid for a shared sleeper cabin (about $220 for both of us which included a ‘breakfast’). We arrived about 30mins before our scheduled departure where the train was waiting for us at Amsterdam Centraal Station – we got on the train without anyone...

Welcome to my European travel blog! I’ve been taking notes along this trip of every country and city we’ve visited – accumulating everything from where to eat, where to grab a great cup of coffee and how public transport works (plus anything else that might be worth noting). Prior to our trip, we had all our accommodation booked and paid for as well as all our flights (just not our flight home because of the situation in Iran…seems that in 3 months nothing has actually changed on that front)....