I had always heard that the craziest roads and most aggressive drivers in Europe were to be found in Albania. Like a lot of my travels, my latest roadtrip was going to be about testing some popular assumptions. Before this roadtrip started, I have to make a confession. […]
Montenegro is a small country — smaller than the U.S. state of Connecticut — but its beauty packs a punch much larger than countries 50 times larger than this jewel of the Balkans. For years I had heard that Montenegro is one of the prettiest nations in Europe, […]
Before this summer, I had two distinct early memories of Sarajevo and Bosnia–Herzegovina. My first memories of watching the Winter Olympics were in 1984 as a child witnessing Katarina Witt and Scott Hamilton win figure skating gold medals in Sarajevo. Later during the 1990s, I remember watching CNN’s […]