"It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it." - Blues BrothersAs I write, we are sat outside a cafe in Banja Luka, a town in North Bosnia. In the background the Italy Australia game is five minutes in. We just got off a five hour train from Sarejevo, and we have another five hours to kill before our next train - we're hoping the football g...

"Get busy living or get busy dying. That's God damned right" - ShawshankYou would be forgiven for thinking that two relatively intelligent twenty somethings travelling around Europe would invest their free time, of which there is a lot, on noble pursuits. Immersing themselves in the local history so that they can compete with other travellers in Pretention Competitions for example. Or perhaps working on that tan, creating sculpted bronzed bodies that the anci...

"We're gonna need a bigger boat" - JawsWe've got loads of photos by the way, but we can't upload them yet, so check back in a bit for bullet riddled buildings and Vinny's beard (The horror).Sarejevo is pretty non-discript during the day. It's just another eastern European city with cafes and markets and loads of people with not very much to do. At night though, it's fantastic. Thousands of beautiful people without a care in the world fill ...

Hello everyone. My names Vinny and I'm the bast person ever and Mike's travel chum. I'm so good they named me twice, hence if Mike ever types 'Neil' that's also me. Come to think of it, he also calls me "Ginger", "f*** You" and "Do You Ever Shut Up?" so I have more than two aliases. I thought it was about time for me to chip i with an observation or two from our soiree so far.Mike is doing an incredibly fine job of the log to date, for whi...

"I don't want it to be one of these awful, tacky stag nights that everyone seems to think are so important these days........ Strippers, obviously" -- Men Behaving BadlyA quick hats off to a lovely Kiwi girl called Lucy, who joined Vinny and myself in our attempt to spend every remaining penny of Croatian money the night before we left Dubrovnik. It was a difficult challenge, one of the toughest we had faced so far - we had to deal with draconian licensing la...