People get uppity if you refer to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as Macedonia. The region of Macedonia used to include a big swathe of southeastern Europe including FYRM, Albania, Serbia, Kosovo and of course a large area of…
Archives for January 2018
The time I slept in a kid’s playhouse in Estonia
I visited Tartu to break up my journey between Tallinn and Riga and I’m very glad I did. There were no hostels here in 2007 so I booked a room in what a thought was a cheap hotel, but it…
Does Dubrovnik have too many tourists?
Yes, I’m a hypocrite because I was a tourist to Dubrovnik but that was in 2007 and things have certainly changed. I think travel is so important but sometimes we do put too much pressure on our loveliest places when…
San Marino: The world’s oldest republic
San Marino is said to be the world’s oldest surviving republic and I visited on a trip to Italy in 2008 with my two friends, Alicia and Neeley. We stayed in Rimini and got a bus from there to San…
Veliko Tarnovo: Bulgaria’s most charming city
Veliko is beautiful and oh so cheap. I would definitely put it at the top of the most picturesque small cities I’ve visited along with Cesky Krumlov and Mostar. I went there with my friend Steph and we picked up…
Inside Andorra: The world’s sixth smallest country
I visited Andorra in 2013 on a trip from France to Morocco, it was in March and there was snow on the mountains. It is the sixth smallest country in Europe. Andorra is the only co-principality in the world which…
A little look at Liechenstein
When I visited the Italian lakes in 2014, I decided to have a little look at Liechtenstein and this is what I discovered. The famous story about Liechtenstein is that it tried to join in the Austro-Prussian war in 1866…
The brutal history of Bosnia’s most famous bridge
I went from Dubrovnik to Mostar which took about 3 and a half hours, it was one way to lose the crowds! After seeing photos of the beautiful Stari Most bridge, I was really thrilled to be seeing Bosnia and…
The Romanian palace built by a dictator
Bucharest is a city that has been through a lot and it certainly feels like it. I went with my friend Laura and we spent two days there. We visited the Palace of Parliament, the second-largest administrative building in the…
Watching Santorini’s famous sunset in Oia
I visited Greece in 2012 with my friend Jill and we went on the cheapest possible tour of the Greek Islands. We stayed in Santorini in a very cheap hotel where we met an Aussie girl and we decided to…
Is Malta’s cat village in danger?
The cat village of St. Julians in Malta has apparently become quite the tourist attraction. There have been reports that it was in danger of demolition at the end of 2017 so that a company can build on it. Depending on…
The white sand of Lithuania’s Curonian Spit
After visiting Belarus, we flew to Palanga in Lithuania to visit the Curonian Spit, a beautiful area that I have wanted to visit for a long time and I was excited to have the opportunity. We got the bus from…