While not among my 18 official destinations on this trip, Rīga, Latvia, is ideally situated midway between city #17, Kaunas, Lithuania, and city #18, Tallinn, Estonia, breaking up what would otherwise be an interminable 9-10 hour bus trip into two manageable four-and-a-half hour chunks. And my rule with layover cities is that even in these
Rijeka, Croatia is not one of my 18 candidate cities, but it’s well situated as a stopover between city #8, Split, and city #9, Ljubljana, Slovenia. As it was, the bus I took from Split to Rijeka (pronounced ree-YAY-kah; the “j” in Serbo-Croatian is pronounced like the English “y”) on 29 May 2018 took eight
Salamanca, Spain, although inexpensive, did not make my list of 18 potential new homes. I have two reservations about Salamanca: (1) it’s too small, and (2) it’s too touristy. But, it is situated in a convenient location to be a stopover between destination #6, Málaga, on the southern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, and destination