Catch up on our latest adventures here :
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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From Mountain Trails to Monastery Tales
We had crossed the border into Serbia and our excitement at being in a new country shook off the gloom that had descended on us from the merciless weather and endless mechanical problems. We were…
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An Elemental Battle
The taxi came to take us to the airport at 3:30am. We were heading back to arctic conditions in Sarajevo and had a strong sense of foreboding. As the aeroplane touched down our hearts sank,…
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Sarajevo in the Snow
We were fuming. We had spent nearly two months running the gauntlet of the chaotic Italian roads and come out of it unscathed only to have a lorry take out our wing mirror on a…
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A Winter Wonderland
We woke up early and looked outside at the forest around us. It was so beautiful we thought we would stay all day in the peace and quiet and get a few jobs done around…
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