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 …
Dubrovnik - Croatia It's always a sad start to the day when a number 2 sounds like a number 1 and it takes several Imodiums before feeling confident enough to leave the house. It's even worse having to stand in a crowded bus on the way to a crowded boat that is scheduled to arrive …
Dubrovnik - Croatia Our journey to Dubrovnik was like a scene from James Bond, the afternoon sun ricocheting off the impossibly calm Adriatic Sea as we came in to land on a little airstrip at the foot of the limestone mountains that make this part of the world so damn gorgeous. Our drive along the …
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