Month: August 2026

Pelion: mountain villages and Aegean beaches

Pelion is the peninsula that closes the gulf of Volos, in Thessaly, and one of the few places in Greece where the mountain runs straight

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Lake Koman: the ferry through Albania fjords

Lake Koman is a reservoir on the Drin river in northern Albania, and the ferry that crosses it has become one of the best known

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Peaks of the Balkans: a complete trail guide

Peaks of the Balkans is a circular trail of roughly one hundred and ninety two kilometres linking Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro, crossing the borders over

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Përmet and the Benja thermal springs

Përmet is a town of ten thousand people in southern Albania, set on the bank of the Vjosa, one of the last genuinely wild rivers

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Korçë: the little Paris of Albania, a city guide

Korçë is a city of about seventy five thousand people in south eastern Albania, set on a plateau at eight hundred and fifty metres near

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Trebinje: the town of sun and wine in Bosnia

Trebinje is a town of thirty thousand people at the southern tip of Herzegovina, less than thirty kilometres from Dubrovnik and an hour from the

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Jajce: the waterfall in the royal town centre

Jajce is a town of twenty seven thousand people in central Bosnia, built where the Pliva meets the Vrbas. It has a waterfall of over

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Sutjeska: the primeval forest and Maglić peak

Sutjeska is the oldest national park in Bosnia and Herzegovina, established in 1962 in the south eastern corner of the country against the Montenegrin border.

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Blagaj: the dervish monastery under the cliff

Blagaj is a village twelve kilometres from Mostar, built around a spring unlike any other in Europe. The water emerges straight from a cave at

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