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Trip: Europe

There are [82] stories from my trip: Europe


Skopje

MACEDONIA | Saturday, 25 Nov 2006 | Views [1161] | Comments [1]

It's what in reality is a nightmare of a journey via train from Kragujevac, taking nearly 11 hours, but strangely it doesn't phase me.  it's only my arrival that does that - i put it down to hunger and that I'm trying to recover from a cold. My first ... Read more >


Grocka/Belgrade

SERBIA | Wednesday, 22 Nov 2006 | Views [2030]

My Aunties husbands fathers (Ted) wife (Ljiljana) is part Serbian and they live in a little town called Grocka about 30km south of Belgrade.  i had decided to take the overnight train to Belgrade - i didn't appreciate overnight didn't necessarily mean ... Read more >


Gallery: Topola, Kragujevac and Smederevo

SERBIA | Wednesday, 22 Nov 2006 | Photo Gallery


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Gallery: Novi Sad

SERBIA | Wednesday, 22 Nov 2006 | Photo Gallery


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Gallery: Grocka

SERBIA | Tuesday, 21 Nov 2006 | Photo Gallery


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Sarajevo

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA | Monday, 20 Nov 2006 | Views [945]

So it's not what i expect - it really is a little big town.  We take a tram ride pass the bridge where Arch Duke Francis Ferdinand was shot (ring a bell?) and find a room in a locals house - a local who we call Auntie from then on (she keeps lending ... Read more >


Gallery: Belgrade

SERBIA | Monday, 20 Nov 2006 | Photo Gallery


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Gallery: Sarajevo

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA | Wednesday, 15 Nov 2006 | Photo Gallery


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Mostar

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA | Monday, 13 Nov 2006 | Views [3210]

Not only has the weather turned cold, its also turned wet.  so this is a good day for travelling, and travelling we do.  its a local bus journey to Bar down the coast that sees us squashed, heated and cooked in a overloaded minibus.  Bar doesn't look ... Read more >


Gallery: Medugorje

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA | Monday, 13 Nov 2006 | Photo Gallery


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Gallery: Blagaj

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA | Monday, 13 Nov 2006 | Photo Gallery


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Gallery: Mostar

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA | Sunday, 12 Nov 2006 | Photo Gallery


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Gallery: Kotor

SERBIA | Friday, 10 Nov 2006 | Photo Gallery


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Kotor

SERBIA | Friday, 10 Nov 2006 | Views [2862]

This is another little town by the coast with a walled old town.  this one however is in Montenegro not Croatia.  Its an easy morning bus journey that Jan and i take and then Jan goes on a mission to find not only us but an American couple called Tom ... Read more >


Gallery: Dubrovnik

CROATIA | Wednesday, 8 Nov 2006 | Photo Gallery


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Dubrovnik

CROATIA | Tuesday, 7 Nov 2006 | Views [2673]

Dubrovnik So I'm on the bus when i get asked by two others whether i want to see if we can get an apartment together, two others who happen to be girls.."OK" i say :) It turns out that the bloke next to us on the bus owns an apartment, perfect ... Read more >


Hvar

CROATIA | Sunday, 5 Nov 2006 | Views [1119]

Another day trip and another freezing day. i pass up the chance to ride a scooter this time and opt for the bus to take me from Stari Grad port to Hvar town. Hvar being a beautiful little place and i spend hours just wandering around the harbours, and ... Read more >


Gallery: Hvar

CROATIA | Saturday, 4 Nov 2006 | Photo Gallery


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Brač

CROATIA | Friday, 3 Nov 2006 | Views [2523] | Comments [1]

It's only a 45 minute ferry ride, but i cant really enjoy it as it is too cold. Naively i hire a scooter after unbelievably never riding a bike before. Immediately i nearly crash it into a car :) 5 minutes later i think I've mastered it, until i reach ... Read more >


Gallery: Brač

CROATIA | Friday, 3 Nov 2006 | Photo Gallery


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Gallery: Split

CROATIA | Friday, 3 Nov 2006 | Photo Gallery


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Split

CROATIA | Thursday, 2 Nov 2006 | Views [1051]

I continue my bus journey from Plitvice to Split, arriving very late and tired and proceeding to get completely lost in the rabbit warren of streets in the castle complex of Split. i have a rubbish map supplied by the LBP guide book, no where is open ... Read more >


Gallery: Plitvice

CROATIA | Thursday, 2 Nov 2006 | Photo Gallery


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Plitvice

CROATIA | Wednesday, 1 Nov 2006 | Views [948]

So i change my plans again - I'm missing out the whole of Slovenia (but vowing to come back). I wanted to go to Bled and the mountains there but really it's the wrong time of year (the weather has turned really cold), i cant get a ferry from Venice to ... Read more >


Zagreb

CROATIA | Wednesday, 1 Nov 2006 | Views [2457]

So I've had a good start to the day so far: the clocks have changed and i didn't remember, i ran for my train with the full load of backpack Bob only to find that I'm an hour early, and i can't buy a direct ticket to Zagreb from any of the stops i have ... Read more >


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