Bulgaria was the first stop on our backpacking trip – I spent a couple of days here solo before my friend joined me. This meant that I got a few days to explore, make friends with people in the hostel and discover what this beautiful country had to offer. Rila Monastery Day Trip…
Category: Backpacking
A Balkan Backpacking Route
If you’ve decided to backpack around the Balkans, you’ve come to the right place. My friend and I had a month backpacking together – the first three weeks of which were spent in the Balkans. We both fell utterly in love with the Balkans: the food, the friendliness of the people and the…
My advice to first-time backpackers
Over the summer, I went backpacking around the Balkans and southern Europe for a month before a couple of weeks in Spain. This was my first time properly backpacking, staying in hostels and taking the cheapest transport possible – even if that meant overnight or all day buses from one country to another….