Crete to Santorini - Greece After making the short road journey from northern to southern Crete I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when boarding the ferry. We disembarked at Agia Roumeli, a tiny collection of whitewashed buildings wedged between the mountains and ludicrously clear sea with no road access. There is no reason to …
Athens to Crete - Greece One of the great advantages to not researching a tour beforehand is that they often deliver me to places I had no idea about and as a result impress me greatly, Meteroa is one of those places. Catching the train out of Athens and back into the incredible Greek countryside …
Kastoria to Athens - Greece A yummy salad Never have I felt so content upon entering a country. My first and last visit to Greece rates as one of my very best ever trips, and as I made my return, crossing the border from Northern Macedonia, I was thrilled to be surrounded by the empty, …
Skopje - North Macedonia I need to break this down into three parts because the country is wonderfully strange, but first the political house keeping. North Macedonia, a country of only two million people gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 followed by almost 20 years of arguing with Greece over the fact that the Macedonia …
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Montenegro & Albania My glorious home county, The People's Republic of Leicestershire has 80,000 more people living in it than Montenegro's 620,000. Sitting on the Adriatic coast and surrounded 4.5 countries, as with most of the Balkans it is difficult to explain as an outsider. The 0.5 country is Kosovo, a country independent from Serbia …
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