When we were first confronted with the Schengen Shuffle option, we planned to stay a month in Albania, followed by a month in Montenegro and a third month in Bosnia/Herzegovina, after which we could go back to Portugal and work on our permanent residency paperwork. In hindsight we could have stayed the entire three months …
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Aug 05 2026
Tirana, Albania – Unexpectedly Beautiful and Affordable
Flying in from Milano/Bergamo Airport, we land in Tirana’s Mother Teresa International Airport a little after seven o’clock, together with a couple of thousand other travelers and prepare ourselves for a long wait to clear customs and immigration. Lo and behold it took maybe 30 minutes, probably less, to process all these people and get …
May 20 2026
Resting Up in Alland, Austria
Travel is almost never a perpetual highlight reel. There is a lot of mundane boredom, a lot of grueling effort in between the beautiful moments. Not that I can prove it in any way, but the word travel is said to come from the French word Travail, which simply means work. Every destination, an exhausting …
May 01 2026
Krakow, a quick discovery
Krakow – the historical Royal Capital City of Poland and our random choice to visit after a very intense week getting the JeepsforPeace trucks from Edinburgh to Ukraine, was partly the result of a need for relaxation while also discovering why Krakow is such a popular, historic city and is rapidly gaining a reputation in …
Apr 30 2026
Jeeps for Peace: A Convoy to Ukraine
NOTE: We both, Han and TJ, wrote this as one story, so if the writing appears back and forth as first and second person lingo, this is the reason. Most of the time, it sounds if Han wrote it all and that is fine too. Our main goal was to get the story out there …





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