I am in love…. I am in love with Austria! Colossal mountains, lush rolling green hills, chocolate box houses and flowers spilling from every window and balcony, you'd have to be crazy not to fall for this most perfect of countries. This is a nation that is proud of itself and greatly takes pride in its appearance, but is in no way arrogant with it. If I was asked to describe Austria in a word I would say content, and I mean that in the most positive of ways. ...

So we packed up our little tent (boy, are we good at that now!) and headed to our next campsite in Slovenia. But first we had to get through the mother of all border crossings! What was meant to be a short 2 hour drive turned into a gruelling 6 hour trudge. The traffic started well before we were anywhere near the Croatian border and continued well into Slovenia. It was horrific, maybe because it was Saturday... nevertheless we sat through it, played eye-spy an...

For those of you who watch Game of Thrones you will know of a place called Kings Landing, but in real life it's called Dubrovnik, which was our first stop in Croatia. If you've seen the show then you will have a sense of what Dubrovnik is like but for those of you who haven't it's a completely walled town on the edges of the Adriatic Sea, with sand coloured buildings and polished marble streets. It's something straight out of history, preserved, authentic and s...

We decided to take the alternate route into Montenegro, which turned out well…. in the end. After the guy looked at our passports at the Albanian border (which was a road lined with loads of big trucks, not another car in sight) we were ushered off to be interrogated! Well that's what we thought.. turned out we were just getting our car inspected, but this was quite a thorough inspection! They went all through the car, then jacked it up to look underneath. So...

After the free for all to get into our cars, we disembarked the ferry into the land of Albania where we were greeted with begging children and dilapidated buildings before we'd even made it through passport control! Not the greatest of first impressions and to be honest it didn't get any better. Once outside the gates of the dock we had men waving bundles of money at us (they were offering us the most intimidating money exchange I've ever experienced), others w...