The Balkans,
depending on who you ask.
Itineraries written by editors who actually travelled them. Each one with its own page, day-by-day breakdown, and a downloadable PDF for the bus.
Pick a shape. Make it yours.
Each card opens its own page — where to sleep, how to get there, what we'd skip, and where the coffee is good. The usual.
The Balkans in 14 days
Belgrade to Ohrid. The classic loop, with detours that make it ours. Sarajevo coffee, Mostar at sunset, Kotor by ferry, Skopje for argument's sake.
Read the route →The Adriatic Coast in 10 days
From Ljubljana to Kotor, hugging the water the whole way. Plitvice waterfalls, Hvar lavender, the Bay of Kotor at golden hour. The romantic one.
Read the route →The Balkans by bus
No rental car, no licence needed. Sarajevo to Skopje on FlixBus, GetByBus, and the occasional minibus that smells like Marlboros. The realistic one.
Read the route →The Inland Route
Skip the coast. Belgrade, Sarajevo, Skopje, Ohrid. Mountains, capitals, kafanas, the Balkans most travellers don't see. The slow one.
Read the route →Albania in a week
Tirana, Berat, Gjirokastër, Sarandë, Theth. Communist bunkers, Ottoman old towns, Ksamil beaches, and a hike through the Accursed Mountains. The new one.
Read the route →Slovenia & Croatia coast
Ljubljana, Bled, Piran, Rovinj, Plitvice, Zagreb. A clean week, two countries, no bus stations at midnight. The starter pack.
Read the route →Trip planning, but human.
Our routes are detailed enough that most travellers don't need a planning service. Most. There's always someone who does.
For them, we're building something that won't scale. A trip planning service. Run by humans. With actual emails. With opinions about which Mostar guesthouse won't oversell rakija to your father-in-law. No algorithm, no AI-generated PDF, no "20 hidden gems" list. Just us, your dates, and a plan written in proper sentences.
It's not ready. The newsletter people will know first, as usual.
Custom trip planning by humans who know the place.
Not a tour package. Not a booking platform. A bespoke plan, written by us, sent to your inbox as a PDF you can take to the bus station.
Once a month-ish, plus the email you're actually here for.
Because there's no one Balkans.
The Balkans aren't one trip. They're at least six, depending on what you came for and how much time you have.
If you have two weeks and a sense of adventure, you can do the long loop. If you have ten days and a romantic streak, follow the coast. If you came for hiking and bunkers and a country most travellers still mispronounce, go to Albania. If you don't have a driver's licence, take the bus — it's how most of us get around anyway.
None of these routes is the right one. They're starting points. Every traveller we know ends up rewriting their itinerary by day three. That's part of it.
Pick the shape that sounds like your trip. Then change everything.