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Saints, sinners, and slivovica* Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, Banja Luka (BiH), and some places along the way A couple of months ago I visited Kosovo. After seeing the Serbian churches there (the Kosovar city of Peć being once the seat of Serbian Orthodoxy) and passing through Belgrade, I decided...

Three days in Kosovo (via Shanghai, Amsterdam, Skopje, and Belgrade) I had two weeks' leave in Nov and planned to spend a week in Kosovo. After losing several days in transit and then resting with an exacerbation of the Achilles' tendinitis I had left Australia with, that ended up being only...

Does anyone know the repercussions for crossing from Kosovo to Serbia without having entered Serbia first/leaving without an entry stamp? I am entering Kosovo from Macedonia and hoping to exit on the Mitrovica-Belgrade train as my flight departs from Belgrade. Smartraveller advises against this...

Parliament Hill, Ottawa I spent several months last year travelling from Nova Scotia through to British Columbia. In this thread I’ll mainly talk about VIA Rail and the trips I had with them. Although I did travel by air, and with Air Canada, Westjet, Air Transat and the budget airlines, I...

Vilnius – Kaunas – Klaipeda – Riga – Cesis – Tartu – Narva – Tallinn (and some small towns in between) This is a write-up for a trip I did in September and October. I’ve been living in my hometown Montréal on sabbatical so that’s where it originates and ends. Most of my leisure travel since...

This is a trip I took in mid- to late-Jan. Hadn’t originally wanted to write a report since I was a little frustrated that many parts of the trip had not gone to plan – like going to the trouble of obtaining a Donetsk entry pass only to forget to check the expiry, or missing the train wheel...

A taste of Texas, a lick of Louisiana, a tot of Tamaulipas, and a night in Nuevo Leon I’m a budget traveller so this TR likely won’t interest some, but I will include my experience crossing the US-Mexico border as well as some interesting small towns from my Texan road trip and tips on...

Lurker here - decided to finally join to share some stories, tips, and reviews related to my recent trip to Russia (mid-Dec to mid-Jan) :) First off, my goal was not so much to be a tourist for a month, but to live in Russia for a month. That meant eating at canteens in St Petersburg, taking...