The Balkans are not usually the first destination that backpackers choose to visit. For many people coming to Europe for the first time, Paris, Rome and London all make the list…
This time last year, I wrote a blog post talking about my first full year of travelling. The post starts with the sentence, “2016 was the best year of my life,” and I…
“What was a war childhood for you?” “…waiting for Grandpa to come back from the market, but he still hasn’t.” “…a war childhood is when you have a crush at school,…
Please note: this article contains descriptions of torture, murder and rape that may be distressing to some readers. I also did not take any of my own photographs whilst in the…
As we drove through the streets of Sarajevo, taking in the crumbling buildings and apartment blocks riddled with bullet holes, Al began to open up about why he’d decided to become…
As soon as I crossed the border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, I could tell that I had entered a different country. Unlike most places, where the only hint that…
