After a couple of days in Croatia, Johan and I continued our Balkan Tour just down the coast in Montenegro. Although just 37 miles to the south, as the whole of the Bay of Kotor was essentially fjords, it actually took 2 hours to travel the 60 miles by road. Although as there were stunning views of the bay, this wasn't really a problem. After arriving in Kotor and settling into our apartment with stunning views overlooking the bay, we went to explore the Old Ci...

Arriving in Dubrovnik in the evening was a bit of a culture shock. After travelling through standard cities we had suddenly arrived in a tourist hotspot. As we got on the bus into the old city, the first people we saw were drunken, sunburnt Brits. After a busy few days through Bosnia it was quite a relief to be spending two whole days in Dubrovnik giving us chance to get settled, have a lie in, and do a bit of washing, and luckily for us we were staying the Old ...

Bosnia was the only country in which we visited two cities, travelling via the beautiful city of Mostar on our way from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik in Croatia. Arriving in mid morning after travelling through the stunningly beautiful Bosnian countryside, Johan and I spent just a few hours in Herzegovina's largest city, where we made our way down towards the icon of the city - the Stari Most, or Old Bridge. As we travelled south from the bus station in the 40˚C h...

After our mosque hunting drive through the Bosnian countryside, we headed to bed before our full day of sightseeing in the historic capital of Sarajevo began the next day. Starting off with the practicalities by buying our onward travel tickets, the following morning we headed down Sniper Alley towards the Historical Museum of Bosnia & Herzegovina, where we began our day viewing images of the Bosnian War, and the aftermath and in particular Srebrenica, of wh...

And so it begins. Having been many months in the planning, I arrived on the Saturday night in Belgrade, capital of Serbia, and my 50th visited country to meet up with my good friend Johan, who I hadn't seen in over three years. My time in Belgrade was short - lasting less than 20 hours, but it was enough to get a feel for the city. We began our day by leaving the hotel and walking over to the Kalemegdan - the fortress over the city with views of the confluence...