How to Choose an International Travel Destination during Covid-19 World Last year when the Covid-19 pandemic hit globally, I was out in the world traveling full time, as usual. When lock-downs, border closings, tranportation shut-downs and other restrictions began to set in mid-March, 2020, I was in Antalya, Turkey. And there I was inadvertently ‘stuck’ …
Cost of Budget Travel in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2020
Cost of Budget Travel in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2020 Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH for short) is a small eastern European country on the Balkan peninsula. It’s bordered by Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. Before becoming an independent country in 1992, it was part of the former communist Replublic of Yugoslavia. I wrote a fairly detailed …
14 Observations about Turkish People
14 Observations about Turkish People Ok, to start off this article, I must admit to being a bit hesitant to write these observations. For one thing, everything I’m about to say is a result of my own personal observations of the Turks. So who knows, maybe I’m completely wrong? Or partly wrong? But I do …
12 Things I Most Love about Turkey
12 Things I Most Love about Turkey I first landed in Istanbul, Turkey in early February, 2020, more than 20 years into my ongoing full-time world travels. Within just a few days, Istanbul had already become one of my favorite cities in the world. After one month of exploring fascinating Istanbul, I set out to …
My 10 Best Travel Tips Articles of 2020 on LashWorldTour
My 10 Best Travel Tips Articles of 2020 on LashWorldTour At the beginning of every year I present a couple articles rounding-up my best posts from the previous year. Last week I gave a list of what I consider to be my best over all travel articles of 2020. This week I recommend my best …
My 12 Best Articles of 2020 on LashWorldTour
My 12 Best Articles of 2020 on LashWorldTour Every year in January I write a quick article with a list of what I consider to be my best travel articles of the previous year. They include posts about my stand-out travel experiences, introductions to various destinations I visit, intriguing & little-known information about distant countries, …
LashWorldTour 2021 World Travel Plans
LashWorldTour 2021 World Travel Plans As many of you may know, I’ve been traveling the world full time since 1998. My goal is to visit every country on the globe. I explore each place I visit slowly and in-depth. I’m not just ticking off a list of countries. I really want to experience each country …
My 2020 Covid-19 Year in Review
My 2020 Covid-19 Year in Review 2020 was set to be an epic year for me. Epic for travel, for work and income, for great family gatherings… My 2020 World Travel Plan In terms of travel, I was planning to visit 10-11 countries, most of them new to me. I started the year in Cyprus, …
10 Amazing Facts About Bosnia & Herzegovina
10 Amazing Facts About Bosnia & Herzegovina Bosnia & Herzegovina is a small eastern European country located on the Balkan peninsula. I’ve been exploring Bosnia for nearly one month thus far. It’s a beautiful country with stunning mountains, rivers & waterfalls along with many adorable historic towns & cities. I’ve learned many interesting & amazing …
Introduction to Bosnia
Introduction to Bosnia Bosnia is a small, mountainous, land-locked country on the Balkan Peninsula in eastern Europe. It’s officially called Bosnia & Herzegovina, often abbreviated to BiH (where ‘i’ means ‘and’ like the Spanish ‘y’), or called Bosnia for short. Sarajevo is the capital city. Bosnia is bordered by Croatia on the west and north, …