In case you haven’t guessed yet, Albania absolutely blew me away when I visited this Autumn (and if you’re new here, hey, I’m Dani and Albania absolutely blew me away when I visited this Autumn). Berat was a city that I fell…
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As soon as I arrived in Albania, Berat was all anybody talked about. This ‘City of a Thousand Windows’ in Southern Albania, surrounded by mountains and filled with mosques and churches was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in…
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7 Reasons Why Everybody Should Visit the Balkans!
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 but Sarajevo, Tirana and Skopje rarely do (that’s…
The first time I tried rakija I was 18 years old. I’d just started my first year of university and I met a Bulgarian guy who had brought a plastic water bottle full of homemade alcohol with him to…
Not many people have heard of Berat, and even less have heard of Roshnik, a small village located about 30 minutes from Berat’s centre. Usually visitors to Albania spend a few days in Tirana before moving onto the next…
Everybody warned us about Albanian men. ‘They’re all Mafioso, they will take you, sell your body and harvest your organs,’ they said. The stigma surrounding Kosovo was even greater. ‘Kosovo isn’t safe, it’s a warzone. You’d be mad to…
Tirana, Abania. Not a place where many people decide to spend their holidays, and it doesn’t usually feature on the itineraries of most people backpacking through Europe. Tirana isn’t the glitziest of destinations, nor is Albania the easiest country…
