Month: February 2020

Split & Trogir

Split & Trogir – 2 cities at the Croatian coast but very different in size and atmosphere. We took a walk through both but didn’t try to compare them, just enjoying the old centres while walking through  narrow alleys. Trogir First we parked outside of Split and took a 1/2h walk to the centre. It …

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Detour to Mostar

From the coast we drove inland to visit Mostar with its famous bridge, but also a necropolis with medieval tomb stones and a Dervish monastery, the Blagaj tekke. We had stopped for the night at the coast of Croatia, next to a church and cemetery from where we had a nice view and spent a …

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Dubrovnik

The most southern town of Croatia and the most famous one in the whole Balkan is Dubrovnik. Everybody wants to visit Dubrovnik but luckily at this time of the year there were no cruise ships dropping hundreds of tourists at the harbour. Our first challenge was to find a parking. We thought we were lucky …

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The bay of Kotor

The bay of Kotor is an UNESCO World Heritage Site in Montenegro for its well preserved medieval towns around the bay and the natural environment with its high mountains. We wanted to explore this area by bike. We had started from Kotor where we got the bikes out and explored the old town before we …

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Reaching Montenegro

From Shkodër it was not far to the border of Montenegro. We were looking forward to get there especially as we were going to visit a friend! From Velipojë, where we had spent the night parking directly at the beach, we had to drive back to Shkodër and west to reach the border to Montenegro. …

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Gjadër Air Base

In the north of Albania we had found a lost military airbase from the communist era. On the internet there are some really interesting pictures of this place, so we went to have a look. Driving over the lost airfield Link to the pictures which had us visit this place: URBEXTOUR What we found on …

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Prizren @ Kosovo

Coming from Skopje, we entered Kosovo and drove over the Prevela pass until we reached Prizren. It was the day before the Day of Independence of Kosovo and everywhere flags were put up and people were enjoying the good weather in the mountains and in the town of Prizren. No comment 🙁 Reaching the border …

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Skopje

We had reached Skopje, the capital of (North) Macedonia, where we joined a guided tour to learn more about this city. Maybe something we should do more often, as you get to ask all your questions, which doesn’t work with a travel book. When we had reached Skopje and were looking for a parking, we …

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