When the summer has almost come to an end and it’s starting to become a bit chilly in the north then get yourself on a plane and head to South Eastern Europe and one of its jewels – Bulgaria. A trip here will be filled with beautiful churches and monasteries, spectacular landscapes, cobble-stoned alleys, colourful …
With place names such us Transylvania, Wallachia, Bran, Peleș, Viscri and Sighișoara on your itinerary, then it is hard not to be constantly thinking and looking out for Bram Stoker’s Dracula in every corner of your trip. Romania is so much more than this 19th Century story of the 15th century prince – Vlad the …
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eSwatini? You may know it as Swaziland, a tiny little African country set in the north eastern side of South Africa. Swaziland was still its name when we visited (so it’ll be still used in this blog), but in 2018 the King decided that a new name was needed and so eSwatini was born. Just …
Driving over 4000 kilometres from the top to the bottom of South Africa is an awesome road trip, that on paper seems doable in 17 days but in reality there is so much to see that even double that amount of time is not enough. 17 days was all we had though (which is still …
Sandwiched between the Alps and the Adriatic, Slovenia is a charming country that will astonish you with its mountainous outdoors and its subterranean indoors. We visited in June, when the temperatures are warm but you may still need a rain coat or umbrella to get through the occasional summer storm. Getting there and around Centred …
A European island gem in the south of Italy. As Italian as pasta and mama, but with a history so varied that it is just as apart from Italy in many ways from the influences of Greece, Arabia, Spain and Normandy. Its particular foods and flavours and its secret familial society that has kept de …