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Eastern Europe

The mysterious east of Europe is one of our favourite places in the world. With far fewer tourists, budget-friendly destinations and incredible culture and landscapes to discover, this is the backpacker’s paradise of Europe!

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7 CHEAPEST Ways to Travel Europe on a Budget (Backpacker Secrets!)

Check out my 7 BEST tips for travelling around Europe on the cheap

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How To Visit Chernobyl And Pripyat. [UPDATED FOR 2026]

A background to Chernobyl On 26 April 1986,

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A COMPLETE Guide To Tallinn, Estonia. [UPDATED FOR 2026]

Toompea hill panoramic The strangely named hill comes

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Our Guide To Riga, Latvia [UPDATED FOR 2026]

Discover local traditions at the Folk bar One

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A Guide To Vilnius, Lithuania [UPDATED FOR 2026]

Things To Do In Vilnius: Castle Hill and Gediminas

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Things To Do In Kyiv, Ukraine [UPDATED FOR 2026]

Mother Motherland and the War Museum  After the

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A Guide To Chisinau, Moldova. [UPDATED FOR 2026]

Explore the markets of Chisinau  What better place

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Guide To How To Visit Transnistria/ Pridnestrovie [UPDATED FOR 2026]

Transnistria or Pridnestrovie? What’s In A Name? You

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A Guide To Brasov, Transylvania, Romania [UPDATED FOR 2026]

Bran Castle When you find yourself in beautiful

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A Guide To Hiking Babele, Carpathian Mountains, Romania [2026]

Discovering this amazing place As we chugged through

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A Guide To Bucharest, Romania [UPDATED FOR 2026]

Head inside the huge Palace of parliament building

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Exploring The abandoned Communist Buzludzha in Bulgaria!

Urbex Dreams and the buzludzha’s history Named after the 4728 ft

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A Guide To Visiting UNESCO Rila Monastery, Bulgaria

Our journey When we arrived in Sofia we

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A Guide To Plovdiv, Bulgaria [UPDATED FOR 2026]

Take in the city’s amazing street art Plovdiv

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A Guide To Sofia, Bulgaria [UPDATED FOR 2026]

Go Hiking and see the wonderful Boyana waterfall on

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Hostel Review: Moreto & Caffeto, Sofia, Bulgaria.

To make things even sweeter when staying at

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Things To Do In Prague, Czech Republic in 2026

Things to see: Charles Bridge This iconic bridge

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The Best Things To Do In Budapest, Hungary

Accommodation: Now usually we are hostel dwellers and

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A Guide To Charming And Contrasting Bratislava, Slovakia.

Impressions of Bratislava I guess with Bratislava we

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Getting from Bratislava (Slovakia) to Vienna (Austria) and back!

Being budget travellers that we are visiting Vienna

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A day in Lviv, What’s it really like in Ukraine.

L’viv, Lvov, Lwów, Львів, Львов, Lemberg or Leopolis…

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Reflections on Auschwitz and how to visit.

The notorious SS camp supervisor Karl Fritzsch greeted

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How To Get From Krakow To Lviv.

The travel from Poland to Ukraine, from Krakow

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