Plitvice Lakes National Park is Croatia’s biggest natural attraction and comprises sixteen dazzling turquoise and […]
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Crossing into Croatia
The border crossing at Croatia was surprisingly tense. Bertha was searched twice by guards, one […]
Zasavica nature reserve
We headed west to Sremska Mitrovica, the former Imperial City of Sirmium hoping to see […]
Belgrade
We had to cross up and over the rolling hills of Fruska Gora in order […]
Sremski Karlovci – return to the Danube
We drove on dreadful roads south to Novi Sad, an old Danube town famous for […]
South into Serbia and Subotica
Leaving Szeged the next morning we travelled south on the motorway alongside the rail track. […]
Architecture and a fish fest in Szeged
Our Sunday afternoon drive on the motorway to Szeged was easy and free-flowing and we […]
The great Hungarian Plains
We left Budapest on the day that Germany announced it would take in migrants, regardless […]
Heat and dust in beautiful Budapest
Daytime temperatures were in the high 30’s and construction and renovation work created clouds of […]
A Budapest Migrant Camp
The nights were punctuated by the sound of police sirens racing to and from Keleti […]