24 Comments We leave Isper and continue along the D050. Just around the corner and the scenery change is pretty instant and dramatic. We are in the […]
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10 Comments After an intense few days, it’s time to move on from the world of the Black Sea, tea plantations and hourly visits from our new […]
Day 20: Driving high into to Kackar Mountains, Isper.
12 Comments Our drive to Rize along the D010 is relatively short and takes just over an hour. Here are mountain backed coves, tea and hazelnut plantations. […]
Day 18-19: Turkeys Tea Party Town, Rize
8 Comments Apart from the low key hum of Turkish music half way through the night we slept pretty well. After a breakfast of bread and jam […]
Day 15: The Longest Tunnel & Biggest Kebab in Turkey, ...
13 Comments Last night, the temperatures dropped to a point we felt the chill and woke to grab our blanket. A few hours snug under the fluffy […]
Day 11, Our First Black Sea Campsite 60p, Ayancik
12 Comments Our motorhome attracts the crowds and as soon as we step out of Vin we are greeted with smiles and hello’s. We chat to loads […]
Day 8 & 9, Boomshackala Black Sea Coastal Road to ...
8 Comments There’s a cockerel somewhere close by that wakes us, before it’s light. It just pips the morning wailing to the post. This is no normally […]
Day 7, Driving Along the Black Sea to Amasra Bay
18 Comments The garden sprinklers rear in to action at 4am and pulsating jets of water hit the rear of Vin. A second later and our alarm […]
Day 6, Early Rise as we Roll Our Tyres on ...
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, ...
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
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
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
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
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
10 Comments After a breakfast of bananas, yogurt, chopped nuts, cranberries and a sprinkle of granola we are back on the road. The weather is still rather […]
Medieval Village with Storks, Storms & Pigs, Lonjsko Polje
14 Comments Have you ever missed the wrong junction and thought, dam! Only to then wander in to the most amazing place and think, thank god I […]
The Ruins & Memories of Ancient Solona
15 Comments Trogir, is 40 miles from Krka national park, if you use the motorway. However, we chose the slightly longer route via the D8, a wide, […]