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Two Tickets To…The Liebster Award!

What is the Liebster award, and what are the rules? Not going to lie, we weren’t too sure ourselves when we were first nominated! In a nutshell, it’s a way to recognise other travel bloggers and their work – helping us to grow our networks and helping everyone discover great blogs that they might … Read more

Two Tickets To…Sarajevo – Part One!

Hi everyone! Time for quite possibly our favourite surprise city of the entire trip. Sarajevo is amazing. We could have spent a whole week there and not got bored. The history is incredible. The people are fascinating. The scenery is fantastic. It’s an absolute gem of a place. So much so that we’re going to … Read more

Two Tickets To Mostar! The Balkan Adventure – Part 8

Travels in Mostar: Day One After waving goodbye to Dubrovnik, it was time to head on to Mostar, Bosnia – a city which we’d accidentally discovered on a long weekend during our year abroad. How do you accidentally discover a city, I hear you ask? We’ll keep it a mystery for now. You’ll just have … Read more

Two Tickets To… Dubrovnik! The Balkans Adventure – Part 7

I think this period of our Balkans travels was a real, real treat. We’d just left the stunning Bay of Kotor behind and were winding our way towards the increasingly famous, and stunningly beautiful, Dubrovnik. After two nights in Croatia, we would be heading to our old favourites Mostar and Sarajevo. We’d fleetingly visited the … Read more

Two Tickets To… Kotor, Montenegro! The Balkan Adventure Part 6

Leaving Prizren behind to travel to Kotor was strange – it felt like the last ‘uncertain’ place, for want of a better word. We’d either visited everywhere that was left, or we knew exactly what to expect. We already felt like the trip was going far too quickly… That didn’t stop us from being very … Read more

Two Tickets To…Prizren, Kosovo! The Balkans Adventure Part 5

First of all – sorry for the delay in posting our latest travel story. Since our latest installment of our Balkan adventure (Pristina), it’s been a pretty hectic time in Matt-and-Lucy Land – we blame that pesky Christmas. This time, we’re travelling over to Prizren, a pretty little city in Kosovo’s hilly South. Day One: … Read more

Two Tickets To…Pristina, Kosovo. The Balkans Tour…Part 4

After two wonderful days by Lake Ohrid, it was time to move on to our next destination – Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. Neither of us had been to Kosovo before, but we were looking forward to visiting. Like most people from the UK, the thing that first sprang to mind when we thought of … Read more

Two Tickets To… Ohrid, Macedonia! The Balkans Tour – Part 3

Battling sleepiness, we made it from our ‘luxury’ apartment to Skopje Bus Station in time for the 07:00 bus to Ohrid. Ohrid is a lakeside town in South West North Macedonia, about which we’d heard great things. There were some terrifying drops from bridges and mountain roads along the way. However, Delfina Tours got us … Read more

Two Tickets To… Skopje, Macedonia! The Balkans Adventure Part 2…

Skopje was the second destination on our three-week tour of the Balkans – You can find part one (Sofia) here. The night bus from Sofia to Skopje We’ll start this blog post from the same point we ended the last. So, without any further ado, let’s get the night bus from Sofia to Skopje out … Read more

Two Tickets To… Sofia, Bulgaria

Given that this is the first in a series of posts on our Balkan adventure, I thought I should set the scene a little before launching straight into the Sofia travel story. Last Spring, Matt and I (yep, it’s Lucy writing) were in the distinctly un-fun final term of our degrees.

In a swirling mess of essays, presentations and the dreaded speaking exam, we decided that we needed something to look forward to once it was all over. And thus, the Balkan adventure emerged. I happily adopted the role of route planner, Matt was in his element finding accommodation, and before we knew it, we’d got a fully functioning travel plan.

Final term came and went (I refuse to spend any longer thinking about it), and before we knew it, we were packing our (really quite small) bags and leaving Warwick as WizzAir whizzed us to the bright lights of Sofia…

7 Reasons to visit North Rhine-Westphalia

Just over two years ago, Matt set off to spend 9 months in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). Based in the city of Dortmund, he got the chance to see most of the area, and still bangs on about it today, much to Lucy’s despair. Matt decided it was about time he put together all the great reasons to visit North Rhine-Westphalia into one big blog post – so here goes!

Two Tickets To… The Harz Mountains, Germany! Part Two: The Brocken and beyond…

Here we have Part Two of our Harz Mountains trip! Featuring the Brocken, a cabin in the woods, and a sunburnt French person! Part One of the Harzreise Trip can be found here.