We travelled through the southern Bohemian region of the Czech Republic in early August and visited three charming towns: Tabor, České Budějovice and Český Krumlov. Despite it being peak tourist season, we were able to stroll through the kinky cobblestone streets of each town, amongst colourful, ornate buildings, decorative churches and majestic palaces in relative peace. Czechia felt very different to its old neighbour/ conjoined state Slovakia and we were […]

Poland is a country, culture and language unto its own!   We only saw the smallest sliver of Poland with a week in the city of Krakow then three days in the Southern Podalise region but we loved how different and well, intensely ‘Polish’ it was (see Polish Curiosities section for quirky Polish things). Krakow is a mesmerising mix of beautiful buildings, ornate churches, royal castles and crumbling soviet era […]

We were we blown away by the endless array of massively magnificent buildings, dinosaur sized monuments and oh-so-hip crumbling ruin bars in Budapest.