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Greece: Visiting Meteora in winter

Add Meteora with towering rock formations, clifftop monasteries and hiking trails to your itinerary! Do you recognize it from Game of Thrones?

Driving over Pindus Mountains in northern Greece using the old road and crossing Katara pass is an epic road trip, but dangerous in the winter

Summing up the first half year of nomad life in Europe; quitting 9-to-5 life, getting started, countries visited, most popular posts, travel costs.

Albanian Riviera makes as perfect beach holiday destination, but also offers wonderful day trip destinations, like the ancient city of Butrint

Southern Albania is becoming a popular beach holiday destination – road trip along the coastal road leads to hillside villages and sandy bays.

In the first part of our post series from coastal Albania we get to know Durres; holiday destination, the second largest city and the main port

Tirana, the capital of Albania has developed a lot during past few years. We spent there a week working, sightseeing and running in the parks.

Kosovo, the youngest country in Europe, and it’s capital Pristina are not on every travelers bucket list. We visited shortly in November 2017.

How did a city full of concrete and brutalist style architecture get a neoclassical makeover and became the new capital of kitsch in Balkans?

How is Romania in autumn? We were exploring the Black Sea port city Constanta and Bucharest in October 2017 as part of our Eastern Europe road trip.

Driving over the Carpathians along winding Transfagarasan road, witnessing a violent thunderstorm and spotting castles on the way to Moldova.

Romania has so much to offer for hikers. Our day hike on the Apuseni Mountains, that are famous for caves and limestone karst rock formations.