One of our most googled items during our travels through balkans was how to cross land borders between countries. Most of them were pretty straight forward, especially since we were…
Last updated: May 2026 Albania completely surprised us. We expected beautiful mountains and good food, but what we didn’t expect were the atmospheric old towns and cities that quickly became…
Last updated: May 2026 Our last stop in Albania was Korçë, a small city known for its BBQ restaurants and old bazaar area. Sitting high up in the mountains, it…
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…
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…
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…