Last month, I recounted the 9-day trip my wife, Betty, and I took to Slovenia and Croatia. This month, I’ll concentrate on the 7-day trip down and up the Dalmatian Coast, from Split to Dubrovnik and back to Split, that we took immediately after.

When our excellent trip to Slovenia came to an end, our guide, Sanjin, dropped us off in Split. It was there that we boarded a fairly small (by cruise-ship standards), 32-passenger boat for a trip booked with Adventure Life (...

My husband, Steve, and I have Felix Mendelssohn to thank for our June 2018 trip to the Scottish islands. Steve is an amateur musician and had yearned to visit Fingal’s Cave since hearing the German composer’s “The Hebrides” overture.

This interesting geological oddity is not easy to visit, requiring a ferry ride from mainland Scotland to the Isle of Mull, then a boat excursion to the uninhabited island of Staffa. To make it even more challenging, the...

I sat and watched as my wife, Betty, sat there talking to our friends from Canada. Her cane, now a constant companion, was by her side, and I thought about how far she had come from paralysis from the waist down only a year before, with a jumbled mind and a shattered view of the future, to sitting at a table in probably the cleanest city in the world, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Our June 2018 travels consisted of two back-to-back trips. The first was concentrated in Slovenia, with a...