In the past couple of years we've really enjoyed a couple of trips to Croatia and Slovenia, which have whetted our appetite, and we've heard great things about other East-European countries, such as Albania and Roumania. So we've targetted this for our first prolonged tour in retirement.

As our Mobile home has all-weather tyres, we could wait for a snow-free spell, and head down to Albania  or northern Greece in late January, meandering  north through Albania, North-Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Romania, Hungary... or at least some of them. For non-EU countries (Albania, Bosnia Herzegovena, Kosova, Montenegro, North Mecedonia and Serbia) roaming is very expensive, so if we're there for more than a few days, it's worth buying a local SIM card.  eg Albania SIM card ~ €20/month for 25GB. If we decide when we will be in each land, we could buy an eSIM package before we set off.... or as we want to be flexible, we could buy an eSIM for the next country before crossing the border (eg from Breeze)

As Josie's titer-test showed insufficient Rabies immunity, we've decided to split our tour into 2 parts: part 1 is Rumania and Bulgaria, staying within the EU, ie avoiding Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia. Part 2 will include these non-EU countries.

This page shows potential routes, first for part 1, then for part 2, and has links to pages showing the highlights of each county. 

As Josie's joining us, the rules for importing dogs are summarised here.