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Where to break the journey between Belgrade and Budapest
Novi Sad, Subotica, Szeged and Kecskemet – four cities worth considering if you have time and want to see more of central Europe I admit that some of our Where to break the journey posts can involve a bit of endeavour when it comes to the transportation side of the...
Budapest: Street Art that hurts …
...if you're an England football fan! Match of the Century: Sporting Street Art in the Hungarian capital This interesting piece of street art in Budapest depicts what became known as the ‘Match of the Century’. In November 1953, England lost 3-6 to Hungary at the...
Budapest to Belgrade the Long Way: An Introduction to the Balkans
ITINERARY SUMMARY (Hungary) Budapest (Slovenia) - Maribor - Ljubljana (Croatia) - Zagreb - Zadar - Spilt - Dubrovnik (Bosnia & Hercegovina) - Trebinje - Mostar - Sarajevo - Visegrad (Serbia) - Zlatibor - Belgrade Leaving Budapest, Maribor is a great place to...
Suggested Itinerary to Romania and Hungary: Bucharest to Budapest overland
ITINERARY SUMMARY (Romania) Bucharest - Brasov - Sighisoara - Medias - Sibiu - Timisoara (Hungary) - Szeged - Kecskemet - Pecs - Budapest Two full days in Bucharest will allow just enough time to see the main sights before taking a train to Brasov. Way less touristy...
2016 Travel Review in Photographs
Here we go again with a roundup of where our 2016 travels took us, featuring a lot of wanderlusty photographs. Is it really a year since our last annual travel review?! At the start of every year we catch ourselves saying “we’re going to really slow it down this...
Budapest Short Break
How to spend a few days in Budapest What to do before you arrive Our suggestion would be to get a Budapest Card. If you buy them online in advance the current price is Ft8455 (Hungarian Florints) per person for a 72-hour pass (approximately $33/€27/£22). The...
2014 in Photographs
It’s not in my nature to use words like awesome or epic but looking back at our 2014, less-enthusiastic words just don't do our travelling year justice. Hammerfest, Norway June 2014 Twenty-six countries across three continents, it’s certainly going down as the year we...