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The following are our top picks of places to visit and things to do in Kosovo. Rugova Canyon The Rugova Canyon, or Rugova Gorge, is in the northwest of the country near Peja. There’s a road through the canyon that actually goes all the way to the border with Montenegro. Along the road there are…
Albania was an unexpected adventure. We were enjoying Greece when the country went into a full lockdown due to covid. We needed to leave the country (or spend weeks sitting in a hotel room) and ended up finding a cheap priced flight from Athens to Tirana, Albania. We didn’t know anything about Albania. We booked…
Now that we’ve completed the North Coast 500 route we started to make our way back home towards London. This post starts from Inverness heading back towards London. Check out our other posts on the journey north to the NC500 and the NC500 route. In the two weeks we took to get back south to…
While doing the North Coast 500 route we decided to take a side trip to Orkney Mainland. The couple days spent on the island were better than we expected. There is so much to see and do on the island – we really wish we would have planned more days to explore more of the…
Journey Details | 17 Days | 1243.1 Miles Since we were travelling from the south, and visiting other places on our way north, we started our NC500 journey from the west coast (Isle of Skye to Applecross). At the end of the route we headed southeast from Inverness, so we didn’t get a chance to…
We decided we wanted to do the North Coast 500 route along the north coast of Scotland. Since we were planning to drive all the way north, we thought we would take our time getting there (and back) from London. In the two weeks we took to get to Lochcarron to start the NC500 we…
Day 1 – New Forest National Park New Forest National Park. We left home and headed through the New Forest National Park on our way to Beaulieu. The drive through New Forest was beautiful. Very green and ponies everywhere! The ponies would be in the field next to the road, on the shoulder, or sometimes…
The Nebraska Sandhills Scenic Byway stretches 272 miles from Grand Island, Nebraska to Alliance, Nebraska. We decided to head to Breckenridge, Colorado for a long weekend. Rather than taking the generic route across Nebraska on Interstate 80 we decided to take a scenic route through the Sandhills. The route is only a few hours out…