Last updated on 10/08/2021. Pristina, Kosovo’s capital city is not a place that many people consider travelling to. Those already in the Balkans may choose to spend a night in Pristina to tick it off their lists, but for most people, Kosovo is not even on their radars, because they (wrongly) assume it to be …
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Unfortunately, the Balkans have a terrible history of bear cruelty. Up until very recently, it was common for restaurants to have bears in tiny cages as a way of attracting customers. These bears would live off sweets and bread crusts thrown to them by passersby, and the restaurant owners would frequently forget to give …
The first time I tried rakija (rakija pronunciation – ra-kee-ya) 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 the UK. The clear liquid, made from grapes, was like nothing I’d …
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Before you start: this post is not a guide to Valbona National Park and the popular hiking trail from Valbona to Theth. For a practical guide to that, please check out Emily’s post over at Wanderlush! Everybody warned us about Albanian men. ‘They’re all Mafioso, they will take you, sell your body and harvest your organs,’ they said. …
