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Keep up to date about with we’ve been up to on our 18 month round the world trip!
Bratislava – Eat the soup! Don’t eat the soup!
Slovakia has some amazing food although I wouldn’t call it well balanced food. What I mean by this is I personally wouldn’t call potato dumplings covered in goats cheese topped with a side of bacon a meal I could get all my vitamins for the day from, this...
Hoia Baciu – Voted one of the most haunted forests in the world
Hoia Baciu forest is largely considered as the most haunted forest in the world! It is situated near Cluj Napoca which was our last stop on our journey through Romania and was a 7-8 hour train ride from Brasov, its pretty much the reason for coming to Cluj Napoca, we...
A few of Brasov’s impressive sights
After our big trip seeing all things Dracula we decided to take it a bit easier for our next day in Brasov, we chose two things that we wanted to see and went out for a stroll. We decided to go see the black church and rope street, both were located in the town...
Dracula’s Bran Castle – Romania
Dracula is someone everybody can show interest in, we can all say that in some point in our life he is responsible for an uneasy nights sleep. The original 1897 novel written by Bram Stoker has been the inspiration for over a thousand other Dracula themed novels, and...
Plovdiv – alot more to see if you know where to look
A great way of getting the most out of any place you visit is to always make sure you do some kind of tour, and this doesn’t always have to mean you have to spend money. If you don’t mind doing a bit of walking there are a lot of free walking tours all...
Plovdiv – Bulgarias second largest city
We stayed in Plovdiv for 5 nights, one of our longest stops in a single place during our trip through Europe, we wanted to have a lot of time here as when we researched he city there seemed to be a lot of historical sites that really appealed to us. It was also nice...
Nis (pronounced Nish)
We left Mokra Gora very early in the morning to continue our journey on Nis, a small Serbian city that sits close to the boarder of Bulgaria. As we had come to accept after spending a week now in Serbia, and after trying and failing on many occasions when we were...
Making friends in Mokra Gora.
As mentioned in previous posts, there is a hotel in Mokra Gora which has an excellent restaurant, and it is here we met Aleksandra. As a local of the village, Aleksandra knew all there was to know and also spoke excellent English, which was extremely helpful to us! We...
Emir Kusturica’s Drvengrad
On our last day in Mokra Gora we went for a walk uphill to Drvengrad – a wooden town built by famous Serbian film director Emir Kusturica as the set for his film ‘Life is a Miracle. It’s a beautiful town built between two mountains;...