We love exploring abandoned places, call us strange, but there is nothing quite like the eerie atmosphere of discovering a forgotten or over looked area of a city. Creeping behind the everyday, off the beaten track and into a lost world, a time capsule of a bygone era. A museum that you can interact with,
Bulgaria
A street art tour of Eastern Europe: The modern artistic heart of this historic region
We love street art, in fact, I (Nic) used to do a lot myself back in my uni days and as an artist I just can’t get enough of it! (check out my art blog here if you fancy www.nichilditch-short.co.uk) I love all types of art of course, but what stands out about street art to
Portraits of Eastern Europe: Travelling around this fascinating region and taking in local life.
Whilst backpacking around Eastern Europe we well and truly fell in love with the region. We already had quite a high opinion of this often misunderstood area but travelling long term allowed us to get so much more under the surface of it and interact on a much more intense level. Of course, we were
Exploring Buzludzha: The abandoned Communist headquarters of Bulgaria! (And a side trip to Shipka!)
Have you ever had dreams of crawling through a tiny hole into a dark and damp crumbling ruin, the smell of decay piercing your nostrils and you step over piles of rotten communist relics. Probably not, well that is unless you are as strange as I am! Well, there’s more to it than having a
A day of adventure at the stunning UNESCO Rila Monastery, Stob Pyramids and the Bulgarian mountains!
When we knew we would be going to Bulgaria on our travels through Europe we weren’t really sure what or where we would be heading. Sometimes it is nice to turn up in a country and it be a total surprise. But one thing we did know about was Rila Monastery (and Buzludzha but that’s another
Plovdiv: The ancient Roman city with a young bohemian charm! (and a unique AirBnB experience!)
We had already fallen head over heels in love with Bulgaria by the time we boarded the train in Sofia to make the slow chugging trundle through the mountains and countryside towards Plovdiv. We knew not to much about the second largest city in the country apart from its famous Roman Ruins, but upon visiting
A guide to Sofia, the diverse city we felt so at home in & the gateway to our Bulgarian adventures!
Our first impression of Sofia wasn’t amazing, we arrived in a storm from Kosovo and the big city almost ate us up! We initially stayed in quite a run down area of the city and we felt like we were just coasting through. After having to move to another hostel across the city that’s when
Hostel Review: Moreto & Caffeto, Sofia, Bulgaria! An amazing adventure with amazing people!
Occasionally when you are travelling you stumble upon a hostel that just has everything perfect. Sometimes it can be a hit and miss game that’s true. Some hostels look great but then turn out to be ruined by obnoxious idiots drinking their way around the world. Then others sell themselves short, but once you arrive
Backpacking through Europe: Month 3! A detour, holiday, jumping off a mountain and a new love affair!
So, we greet you from month 3 of our backpacking trip. Month 3 and you are still in Europe you might ask! Well yes and no really! We actually ended up taking a 3 week detour to Turkey to see family, two weeks of that was technically in Asia! But the 3 month time scale
