Stories From Our Overland Journey
Follow our overland journey through the stories we write along the way — from wild places and unexpected adventures to life on the road with Henry and BigMog. Catch up on our latest adventures here :
A Momentus Week in Tirane
We had thought it was too good to be true that our clutch would arrive without any hiccups but when the courier stopped communicating with us altogether we weren’t sure just how bad the situation…
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Meandering Across Albania
We had just spent a fabulous few days in Theth and were loving Albania, but BigMog’s clutch/gearbox problems were now getting too serious to ignore. We were going to have to bite the bullet very…
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A Blue Eye of Wonder
Montenegro had been a series of highs and lows. The highs had been lovely – Lovcen, Cetinje and parts of the coast. But the lows had us seriously questioning the viability of full-time travel in…
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Beautiful Montenegro – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
We were very sad to be leaving Lovcen National Park, it had felt so peaceful and beautiful – in some ways it reminded me of Namibia with endless views over mountains and plains, just a…
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Sun, Sea and Smiles
With our mojos back on track and a little more optimism installed by the wine, we decided to try and book a boat trip on Lake Skadar after all. Not from the town we had…
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Finding Our Mojo in Montenegro
There is always a tipping point in any country when you realise that you are simply on the way out and from then on everything changes. It makes no real sense, it wouldn’t matter what…
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A Time to Pause
We had fallen completely in love with Serbia – a place which barely registers on the tourist scale and which many people believe is an aggressive country best avoided. That may be true of its…
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Belgrade – A City of Surprises
We were in Belgrade, a place we had gone to great lengths to avoid for weeks but had now dived into – determined see everything Serbia had to offer whether we liked it or not!…
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Warmth, Wine and the Road to Belgrade
Gradac Monastery was beautiful. Not just because it was a lovely old building with a long and intriguing history, but also because it was 19 degrees with blue skies and a warm sun shining down…
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Serbian Magic
We were determined to be hopeful – the first buds had started to appear on the ground and, whilst it had snowed yet again, it was thawing quickly and the sun was feeling distinctly warmer.…
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The First Buds of Hope
Subotica Lake was pretty enough but not exactly the wilderness and the weather was not on our side. So after a quick walk around we headed off to the village of Novo Milosevo where there…
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Beauty Amid Adversity
Fifteen monasteries into our sixteen monastery marathon and I had been struck down by some bug that had me unable to get out of bed and barely able to keep water down. We were parked…
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