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  • Love in Lithuania

    Put yourself in March, it’s 2018, cold and the UK is mostly wet. So what does a normal person do for a city break? Probably not Lithuania. But, craving a getaway we boarded a last minute flight (booked a few days before) and departed for Vilnius. We arrived, as expected, to an iced river, cold… Read more

  • Don’t Forget Dubrovnik

    Okay, so kind of left the blog open ended without the last country. That was mostly due to that travel weirdness where the abnormal becomes somewhat normal. Well, better late than never, here is Crazy Croatia. So at the border, past the border, all smooth sailing. We actually even had time to recap our Journey… Read more

  • Beautiful Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Beautiful Bosnia and Herzegovina

    This lovely Balkan country has been written about extensively in British press for all he wrong reasons. We cross the border from Montenegro and pass a convoy belonging to EUFOR, the successors to the NATO peacekeeping force. The border presents no issues, except a look of surprise at our presence. Obviously not well travelled by… Read more

  • Mysterious Montenegro

    Mysterious Montenegro

    Picture the scene; it’s 9pm and dark, you are on an unmarked road, and the sat nav springs late to life and says “turn right in 200m”. Albania still looms in our minds and we try to think – do we go ahead, or take the right? We decide that it hasn’t been impeccable but… Read more

  • Alpine Albania

    Following the epic journey over Macedonia and Kosovo, we find ourselves without any useful sat nav, hundreds of KMs from Montenegro, with less than 3 hours til dark. Theoretically “easy” but nothing ever is. Mesmerised by the sheer stunning beauty of the mountains we hit the main highway that our map leads us to believe… Read more

  • Keqkuptuar Kosovo

    Keqkuptuar Kosovo

    Literally meaning “Misunderstood Kosovo”, which sums up how this country is represented at times in Europe and the UK. With little to no coverage on maps or GPS worth relying on we go on a combination of AA roadmaps we bought and some creative routing. Figuring daytime travel via the main highway via Prishtina to… Read more