Thunder, lighting and a big down pour welcomed us as we arrived in Valbonë. An inauspicious inception to our friendship

As we travelled further east we encountered an increasing number of stray dogs. Initially our reaction was fear but the

As I write I’m high up in the mountains of Kosovo. The border with Montenegro so close that Juliet and

We can’t believe we are coming up to the halfway point in our journey to Baku and Back – or

We’ve been camped on lake Ohrid for a few days. Throughout our journey I’ve been on the look out for

Dear Turkey As I sit on the border waiting to clear through your customs so that we can travel onwards

Most morning’s I am up early as we are now in tune with the sun and the rhythm of the

I sit perched on my pink beach chair, laptop sat on our “floor table” looking over the Black Sea in

We’re high up in the Caucasian mountains near the Russian border. It’s cold and the low clouds obscure the peaks