Drive The Balkans

28/09/2025

Exploring one of the many off-road trails just outside Tirana. Some of our favourite 4x4 routes are surprisingly close to the city. If you hire a new Suzuki Jimny from us for an off-road Albanian road trip this autumn, you might want to keep that in mind - you don’t need to drive for hours to find a 4x4 adventure.

24/04/2025

Backstreet in Tetovo, North Macedonia. Tetovo is great fun to stroll around - its streets are extremely energetic by the standards of Macedonian cities.

23/04/2025

The Albanian monument in Skopje’s little Skanderbeg Square. This part of the mural commemorates the first Albanian-language school, which opened in Korça in the dying days of the Ottoman empire.

19/04/2025

The great powers chopping up the Balkans in the Museum of Macedonian Struggle, Skopje.

18/04/2025

17/04/2025

There’s something about this dude… He’s grinning under that beard, but why? You can find him in the Museum of the City of Skopje (the old rail station).

16/04/2025

Loved this little fella in Skopje’s archaeological museum. It’s actually a surprisingly good museum once you get inside and past the faux Greek (sorry, Macedonian) pillars.

14/04/2025

Looking across the Stone Bridge in Skopje towards the statue that is unrelated to Alexander the Great.

13/04/2025

Some pretty cool Tito-era gear in Skopje’s bazaar.

12/04/2025

Love this store in Skopje bazaar. Definitely the go-to place for random metal stuff.

11/04/2025

Wandering the bazaar in Skopje. So glad it hasn’t been totally sanitised yet.