My wife and I completed a 3½-week private tour of Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Croatia in May 2017. The tour was arranged by Barbara Sansone, owner of Original World (San Rafael, CA; 888/367-6147, www.originalworld.com).
Including all hotels, breakfasts, two drivers and two guides (since one guide wasn’t licensed in Albania), our trip for two cost $13,007.
Following a May 2017 visit to Russia (Jan. ’18, pg. 6), we flew airBaltic (www.airbaltic.com) from St. Petersburg to Stockholm, Sweden.
From Stockholm Arlanda Airport, we rode the Arlanda Express train to Stockholm Central Station, then took a taxi to our hotel. Booking the Arlanda Express early provides big savings.
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Dear Globetrotter:
As part of a 3-week, self-planned trip to Northern Europe, my husband, Steve, and I traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, staying only three days, Aug. 23-26, 2017. With our short stay, we wanted to maximize our time there, plus knowledgeable friends (from Russia and Bulgaria) strongly suggested arranging for a tour if we wanted to visit the State Hermitage Museum.
On Aug. 7, after visiting their website, I emailed Dancing Bear Tours (Bryantsev str. 18-67, St. Petersburg, 195269, Russia; phone +7 812 379 26 33, http://dancing-bear-tours.com).
My friend Dan and I went to Iceland in August of both 2016 and 2017, flying Delta from Minneapolis, with connections in Albany, New York.
For our last night in Iceland, we went to Keflavík, the town next to the airport. We took the airport bus for a round trip (about $42) and then at the airport took a taxi to Hotel Grasteinn (Bolafótur 11; hotel grasteinn.is/en/location), a nice, new hotel on the north end of town.
