I just spent a whole day exploring one of Europe’s poorest countries, where there are no shimmery Eiffel Towers, Mediterranean sunsets, or wide leafy boulevards lined with designer shops – and I almost couldn’t believe I was still in the same continent. Comprising Southeastern Europe, the Balkan Peninsula is officially home to 12 nations, which …

After a relatively quiet start of summer, Covid is making headlines again as a number of countries report rising infection trends and start reintroducing curbs they had once abandoned. As expected, the CDC is keeping a watchful eye on it, and has not hesitated to issue its infamous travel health notices. This week, 5 more …

Being the first collective of nations to bar tourism in the wake of Covid, Europe is ironically paving the way for the reinstatement of international travel and pushing for pre-pandemic normality. More than half of the continent has dropped Covid entry requirements, and along its Eastern front, the Balkans have become the most-restriction free area …

As Europe moves past its era of complex travel rules resulting from the Covid pandemic and starts reopening to tourists, two other countries in the continent have announced simultaneously they will be removing their own entry requirements: Serbia and Kosovo. They are now officially the 43rd and 44th countries to have scrapped all Covid travel …