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Tell me you’re in Germany without telling me you’re in Germany? Just did! The day started out in Montenegro, with a lovely breakfast with Anya and Ljosha in the back yard….so serene. By 8am I was at the bus station saying so many goodbyes and thank you’s and Ljosha was off to Kindergarten. My bus…

Montenegro, what does it conjure up in your mind? If you said mountains, and lots of them, you’d be right! Traditionally a land locked nation, Montenegro only recently gained a coast line through the Bay of Kotor. Anya and I drove up that crazy set of mountains again to head to the Mausoleum of Petar…

I jumped on a bus in Split to head down to Kotor in Montenegro, to catch up with a good friend of mine, who guided Lesley and I along the Silk Road from Istanbul to Beijing back in 2018. Interesting side fact, I’ve caught up with all the members of that tour in 2023! It…

I had heard about the amazing Plitvice Lakes and booked a trip to head out to see them. Another UNESCO site, the lakes are the oldest national park in Croatia. I met my guide (and the rest of the tour) early in the morning in the middle of the Old Town (which is where all…

To say landing at Split Harbour in the morning was chaos (organised they tell me!), is an understatement! The boat did indeed start up its engines at 5am…. Which was a bit rude after our farewell dinner the night before in Milna! Most of the weekly tour boats offload and on-load on a Saturday, which…

We chugged up the coast from Hvar to the island of Brač and stopped in the port of Bol. Known for having the Golden Horn of the Adriatic, it’s a white pebble beach in the shape of a horn (roughly) and due to strong currents, it’s never pointing in the same direction. It was clearly…

From Trstenik, we kept heading north towards Split. Some of the best moments of the day (other than the massive amounts of Croatian food) are the swim stops. The captain will pull the boat into secluded bays, tie up to the shore and we’ll dive off the back of the boat. We stopped at Beach…

Currently I’m sailing from Dubrovnik to Split along the Dalmatian Coast. It is probably the slowest thing I have done all trip and it’s very strange to not have to get up to “be” somewhere! I walk most mornings, so it’s an interesting challenge to not get up and go for a walk in the…

For various reasons (but mostly just one!), I was relatively late getting into Dubrovnik, which meant a) I hadn’t eaten anything all day, except an egg and cress sandwich in the Manchester airport at 9am b) it was a national holiday in Croatia, so many things were closed and c) it was a bit late…

On our way back down from Scotland to Liverpool, we stopped in at Hadrian’s Wall for a quick walk and to look for the lucky penis engravings (so the Roman’s say anyway!). We probably hit the worst weather that I’ve had in the UK thus far, it was bucketing down! So we donned our dry…