Gjirokastër Travel Guide: What to Do in Albania’s Fairytale Town
Last updated: May 2026 We visited Gjirokastër in November, during the low season, and during our two nights there we only saw a couple of other tourists. A lot of…
Last updated: May 2026 We visited Gjirokastër in November, during the low season, and during our two nights there we only saw a couple of other tourists. A lot of…
Last updated: May 2026 Berat is one of those places that feels almost too perfect to be real. White Ottoman houses climb up the hillside, their windows stacked on top…
Last updated: May 2026 We spent a week in Tirana, getting there I was quite run down and exhausted, realising I had a travel burn out so we decided to…
Last updated: May 2026 Shkodër was our first stop in Albania. It’s located in the northern part of the country, close to the border of Montenegro. We spent a couple…
Last updated: May 2026 Before we went to Albania we had read some horror stories about bus travel in Albania. These blogs left us quite uncertain and even a little…
Montenegro was the country that many of our friends and family thought we would love. This small Balkan nation attracts huge numbers of visitors each year, especially during the summer…
Kotor is a beautiful little town on the shores of the Bay of Kotor in Montenegro. Known for its medieval old town, dramatic mountain backdrop and large population of cats,…
Herceg Novi was our first stop in Montenegro. We didn’t know much about the town before arriving. We mainly chose it because it was an easy first stop after Bosnia…
One of the biggest surprises during our month in Bosnia and Herzegovina was just how good the food was. Before arriving, we knew very little about Bosnian cuisine, but it…
Bosnia and Hercegovina might be the most difficult place we travelled through in Europe. Just because it is very different from our cultures being Swedish and British. It took us…