Author: Nicolla Hitchen

It’s a lot, trying to lay out my entire Via Dinarica experience through Croatia. But I’m doing it. Whether it looks like it or not, we actually covered quite a….

As a new resident of Kosovo, I was delighted to learn that Liqenin e Komani, or Lake Koman, was just across the border from me now and an easy road….

Meet Montenegro, one more “pearl of the Mediterranean”, or according to me, darling of the Balkans. Chilling just south of Croatia and north of Albania, Montenegro is one of the….

Eight kilometers north of Prilep in south central Macedonia there exists one of the most spectacular monasteries I have ever had the fortune of visiting and in one of the….

Here is a sneak peak at the craziest daytrip I have ever taken. 10 seconds, 20 seconds…basically however long you spend staring at the photos. Chernobyl and its aftermath has….

Three hours from Paris and an hour and a half from Lyon is the dynamic city of Grenoble – rhymes with Chernobyl, though I can assure you, the two look….

For many, including myself, Turku, Finland is usually just a quick stop on a cruise over from Stockholm or on the way to Helsinki. This is a shame really as….

After four years of sticking mostly to the Balkans while exploring Europe, I recently decided to shake things up and head back to the westside to see what lesser-known and/or….

Oh, how to describe this place in a way that hasn’t been done a million times before? Cappadocia… I can’t so I won’t even try. Will only confirm that it’s….

Perhaps one of Europe’s biggest secrets that I couldn’t quite wrap my head around until I actually went and explored it in the flesh sand, is that Bosnia & Herzegovina….