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Wales – Brecon Beacons

Following on from Stonehenge, and high up on the list of places that I deeply regretted missing from our Euro Road Trip, I was back in Wales. I’ve…

Euro Road Trip – Danube Bend

We left behind central Budapest, slowly making our way out through the sprawl of the outer suburbs. It seemed to stretch on and on, until we were suddenly…

Euro Road Trip – South Albania

It was amazing how easy it was to leave Tirana, after having a long, painful crawl into town yesterday. We blindly followed the routing that our satellite navigation…

Euro Road Trip – North Albania

The final stretch of road from Montenegro to the border was terrible. It was a narrow twisting section of road, realistically only 1.5 lanes wide, yet people were…

Euro Road Trip – Bosnia and Herzegovina

I remember hearing about wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina when I was younger. At the time, I didn’t quite understand the conflict, other than it being particularly fierce,…