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Balkan Hopping

Kosovo welcomed us properly. Instead of the usual grilling by the border patrol (why why why do I seem so suspicious to officials??), we...

We crossed into Albania expecting a queue, or at least a little difficulty, as this was our first foray north from Greece and the news...

We made an early start towards Greece, only we had forgotten we had some Romanian postcards (with Romanian stamps…) along with some...

Driving through Hungary, we had commented on their extremely zealous use of whipper-snippers. There were guys in teams working away along...

We left Hungary and headed for Romania! We were truly in Eastern Europe now (all the previous countries try and pass themselves off as...

After nearly a week in Budapest it was time to move on and see some of the great country of Hungary. First stop, an hour’s drive away...

The Jewel of the Trip (so far) - Budapest Our trip down from Slovakia took us past the cute hillside town of Banska Stiavnica, where we...

We did a little more back-tracking into Slovakia again – there was the Festival of Ghosts and Ghouls on at Bojnice that sounded too...

Bratislava has no camp sites nearby, so to visit the city we stayed in a little apartment we booked online the day before. It’s a nice...

We skipped back over to the Czech Republic hoping to check out the Moldavian Region (South-East). In contrast to the Bohemian region,...