26 Comments We woke at 4.45 am feeling as if we had spent the night with our head attached to a yoyo. Up, down, up, down as […]
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4 Comments Another early start with breakfast on route via one of the many bakers. We plonk on a bench at the side of the blue mosque […]
Day 4, The Magnificent Monuments of Istanbul
14 Comments We are suddenly woken at 6.10am from a deep sleep by the sound of squabbling birds. As we lie in bed, calm and still we […]
Day 3, The Palace of the Ottoman Empire & Kebabs, ...
15 Comments A good night’s sleep. The constant sea breeze is both a fresh air tonic and natural body coolant. I take a jog along the deserted […]
Day 2, Wandering Around Sultanahmet & Old City, Istanbul
20 Comments Slept soundly and woke bright as buttons. I tootled off for a jog in my attempt to shift a few pounds (or should I say […]
2018 – Turkish Border Control & Onwards to Istanbul
14 Comments I sit here writing our last post from Greece, as tomorrow we head off across the border to Turkey. Its been a real dilemma this […]
The Amazing Beaches of Northern Greece
8 Comments We are sitting at the top of the Halkidiki Peninsula. Often referred to as “Poseidon’s trident” which consists of three smaller peninsulas: Kassandra, Sithonia, and […]
Wild Camping on Secluded Beaches, Halkidiki
6 Comments En-route to the Greek border we stop for breakfast at Sandanski, our final stop in Bulgaria. A small town were residents make much of the […]
Repairs, Spares & Green Card To Turkey, Thessaloniki
15 Comments As we made our way through the winding roads deep into the mountains our cell service dropped; we knew we were in for a treat. […]
The Bulgarian Mountains & Beautiful Brown Bears
10 Comments Time to say cheerio to Ivan, cough up €30 (3 days) and head to 100km to our next stopping point, Rila Monastery. But not before […]
The Spiritual and Social Life of Medieval Bulgaria, Rila
1 Comment Once through the Bulgarian border control we headed straight to Ivan’s pad in Sofia. Its a couple of years since we stayed here and the […]
Triangle of Religious Tolerance, Sofia
12 Comments Seven o’clock on a Sunday morning and there is an air of excitement. People are out in the streets again, shops are open and the […]
The Longest Passport Control Queue In Europe
8 Comments We eat breakfast and sip coffee in the car park of Studenica before we enter Serbia’s most beautiful monastery. We enter via the gate in […]
The Most Imposing Serbian Site, Maglic
8 Comments After a night of storms and wild dogs fighting over scraps, we wake rather bogged eyed and cranky. It is 5.30 am and lorries hurtle […]
Disappearing Roads & Catching Snakes, Studenica
14 Comments Early morning, we feed the station chickens and then set off for Zlatibor. Within ten minutes, the sunshine disappears and the rains returns. Poor Vin […]
A Landmine of Cow Pats as we Hug the Kosovo ...
3 Comments Today, we are taking a historical train journey, the Sargan Eight Line from Mokra Gora to Sargan Vitasi. Our initial plans to catch the 10 […]
A Serbian Cultural Train Journey, Mokra Gora
6 Comments Normally, our motorhome summers are filled with endless days of sunshine, pining for a cool ocean breeze. Rarely do I count the days of rain […]
Floods, Lakes and Bears, Tara Mountains
11 Comments A rather late start but then again, we did have a late night. Yesterday we parked up and had a walk around Openac park. We […]
Mosaic Mausoleum to Make Shift Motors, Bajina Basta
9 Comments The blue skies of yesterday are gone and we wake to a rather grey and dismal sky. The thunderstorms in the night have cleared the […]
From Flea Markets To Monasteries, Topola
9 Comments We pack up and prepare Vin for the last time before crossing the border to Serbia. Croatia has been quite different than we expected. A […]
Venturing Over to Serbia, Novi Sad
8 Comments We wake at sunrise and sip coffee as we listen to the dawn chorus. On the river bank, a little bird with a red crown […]
Sunset & a Spot of Fishing on the Danube, Ilok
8 Comments On a lovely bright, warm summer’s morning (no rain, whoopee) I wake to the smell of fresh percolated coffee. Craig is already up and planning […]
The Scars of the Siege, Vukovar
4 Comments The following day, the weather remains unchanged. We utilise our time by cleaning and making Vin nice and clean. Clean bedding, clean towels, clean everything. […]
The Twin Towers of St Peters, Dakovo
4 Comments We wake to torrential rain, it bounces on the tin motorhome roof like gun fire. Its mighty windy, furthermore gusts fling open our door when […]