My Air BnB Stays of 2025

The author shares insights from recent travels, highlighting five positive Air BnB experiences in Kingston, Budapest, Cluj-Napoca, Suceava, and Harare. They express a preference for hotels due to convenience but recognize Air BnB's value, especially for longer stays or when hotel options are lacking. Overall, they emphasize the importance of careful selection when booking.

Romania’s COOLEST Town – Steampunk, Salt Mines, Universities and MORE – This is CLUJ!

This is the 24th Episode of my 'Round the World - The Wrong Way Trip, and I'm delighted to visit my favourite city in Romania, Cluj-Napoca or more simply known as 'Cluj'. Firstly though, you rejoin the adventure in Hungary, in the capital of Budapest where I take a super long train journey across the …

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Why Not Consider… Romania?

Romania. You know, I see blog posts and articles about many countries in Europe (and other places of course) including Bulgaria, Turkey, Hungary Croatia and others. One place that I don’t see get much publicity and travel recommendation is Romania. Why is this? Well, maybe it’s just not that popular. Actually, of all the countries …

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Five Reasons to Consider Romania

Hi all. Time to change it up a little. Today I’m looking at one of the larger Eastern European countries, Romania. It’s been well over a decade since I visited Romania, but I still remember it as a great destination for a variety of reasons. Here, today, are five of them! It’s Varied! From the …

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Sunday Spotlight – Cluj Napoca

Today the spotlight is back and it’s shining Romania-way to a university town in the westish northish part of a country that has most of its international reputation built on the back of a dude who inspired the legend of Dracula and vampires and fast forward a few centuries and we have the awesome TV …

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Top Five Backpacker Sleeps – Europe

Today I start a series of tips on backpacking accommodation across the world. I will look at different regions of the world and talk a little about the best places I have stayed - mind you they will all be budget options! They certainly won't be four or five star hotels, but instead hostels and …

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