Eastern Europe Local culture Trips

The Baltics have a rich and complicated history and the area is well worth visiting. Our guide Leva whose home is in Latvia, knows the area extremely well and often took her private time to suggest and lead activities that were not on the official tour itinerary. Three beautiful countries, three languages, and three main religions all combined in a whirlwind tour.

Lovely trip to the Albanian Alps and lucky to have a great bunch of people in the group too. The treks were correctly graded at moderate. A good level of fitness and confidence walking on uneven terrain is needed. Accommodation was basic but better than I had anticipated. Albi was a great guide, who had to juggle the capabilities of quite a diverse group. He needs new jokes though ;-) Transport to and from guesthouses wasn’t always great. We didn’t always have working seat belts and one occasion there wasn’t evening seats for everyone. If eating in the evening as a group with vegetarians/intolerances, I’d recommend steering away from fixed menus as they really aren’t catered for. The individuals are left with basically a veggie soup and salad ending up being relatively expensive for what they had.

The trip was excellent. I’ve not travelled with such a large group before so found that tricky at times but our leader Margareta managed the different elements in our Group expertly. Always ensuring everyone was included and informed of what we were doing.

Beautiful country wherever we went. Good thing is you are never in the coach for more than a couple of hours at most. Tour director Nicole was fantastic. Very accommodating and knowledgeable. Plenty of leg room on coach, which was kept very clean. Tomy is a very skilled driver.

Enjoyed all the little gems and great experience of this trip. On this experience all the participants were of equal levels of activity and everyone got along famously. Greg our tour operator was very informative and easy to listen to. I liked the itinerary and length of stay in locations. The driver was awesome, navigating the tight and winding roads is amazing!!

This tour is a way to learn about Croatia and see the outstanding sights in the country as opposed to a cruise that only provided a snap shot of some ports.