I arrived early morning from Belgrade after a dismal overnight journey. Had so many scary moments. I started the journey sharing with a reasonably pleasant Romanian girl. We exchanged a few pleasantries but I didn’t realize how lucky I was to have her rather than the next Romanian that entered the cabin until after she left. When she left I thought ‘score – a cabin to myself!’. My happiness was cut short when a creepy fat Romanian bloke with a trilby hat on decided to come in. I was trying hard to sleep but every time I opened my eyes there was Mr Creepy staring intensely at me. I had to tell him in no uncertain terms to stop fucking staring at me and thankfully he left and found himself another cabin. Phew. Scary moment number ... read more

I arrived from Mostar in the evening and had to find my way from the bus station using my Lonely Planet map. A bit annoying when it’s within a huge ‘Europe on a Shoestring’ guide, as well as hauling my wheeled luggage along. My hostel was located in the heart of Sarajevo so it was a bit of a trek. I had my eyes peeled for the ‘Sarajevo Roses’ I had heard about these in my LP guide. They are shell impacts in the ground all over Sarajevo where people lost their lives during the war and are filled in with red cement. Unfortunately it was dark so I didn’t see any. I got a little excited when I saw the famous bright yellow Holiday Inn because that was one of the sights I was looking ... read more

Severely hungover, I reluctantly forced myself out of my deep drunk sleep to go and catch the minibus outside of Ploce Gate to Montenegro. This doubtlessly put a bit of a dampener on my day which is why I generally don't drink much whilst travelling. But what was done was done - I had gone out in Dubrovnik the previous night and got hammered on buckets of vast volumes of intoxicating liquids. Oh well. The tour was going well from Dubrovnik to the border crossing with Montenegro - finding out little nuggets of information from the tour guide on the surroundings that passed us on our journey, for example, the best restaurant in the Balkans is supposedly in some woodland near the Montenegran border with a waiting list of something silly like 5 years. That is ... read more

Beautiful park. Tourists are herded around like cattle though :( ... read more

On arrival by bus I was lost. I went into a travel shop/internet cafe where the nicest bloke gave me some water (I like my free water), use of his internet and rang my hostel owner who came and picked me up! My faith in humankind after encountering some uber rude Italians was restored. At first I was a little freaked out at how far away the hostel seemed from everything - but I couldn't complain as I had a great view of the mountains (but then again this is Slovenia you would be pretty hard pushed not to have a great view of some mountains of some description) and I could see Bled castle. I spent a few hours online before retiring to bed after a long day. The following day I did what everybody ... read more