Eastern Europe

In the summer of 2005 after my first year at University, my housemate Claudio and I spent five and a half weeks travelling 12 countries across Eastern Europe.

Sarajevo, Bosnia

Hi all,
Well this is probably my last blog before I come home. I apologise for the somewhat poor effort recently but i was half way through doing one in Montenegro and the time ran out.
Basically the last few days have seen us travel from Budva in Montenegro up through into croatia, changing our plans slightly [...]

Durres, Albania

Hey ya’ll,
Righty, not much time to say owt but here goes.
Tirane definitely does the best kebabs of eastern Europe… none of this give you all chips and salad and a tiny bit of meat lark that cracks off in Bulgaria. However am a little concerned about all the men with big guns about. It seems [...]

Tirane, Albania

Dear all,
First off. Thank you Zach, a great chap from the states studying at harvard business school, he has just been on the site and sent me some feedback on how to get from Tirane to Budwar in one easy step. Legend. You can see his big cheesy grin on the picture of ‘the lads’ [...]

Ohrid, Macedonia

Dear all,
This is day 2 in Macedonia… I think. Everything is all a bit messed up because we came over on an overnight coach will decided to get in about an hour and a half early which meant we were in Ohrid around 3:30am [GMT+1] local time. Luckily a kind old geeza had a place [...]

Sofia, Bulgaria

Hi there,
Just a quick post to say that we’ve arrived in Sofia and that I’m pleasantly surprised. The journey down was relatively uneventful although me and claudio were cutting it fine getting the coach from Veliko Tarnovo, since we got to the ticket office just a few minutes before the coach left and we just [...]