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Trip · 25 Sept — 08 Oct 2026

Balkans 2026

From Corfu through Epirus, then north through Albania to Montenegro.

The theatre of Dodona
DresdenCorfuPargaIoanninaDodonaNikopolisZagoriSarandaTiranaPodgorica
Ionian SeaAdriatic Sea North MacedoniaAlbaniaKosovoGreeceMontenegro Corfu Parga Ioannina Zagori Saranda Tirana Podgorica Dodona Nekromanteion Nikopolis Igoumenitsa
Overnight stay Day trip Map data: Natural Earth
Itinerary
  1. 27 Sept — 29 Sept
    2 nights

    Corfu

    First stop.

  2. 29 Sept — 30 Sept
    1 night

    Parga

    Ferry from Corfu to Igoumenitsa, then on by rental car.

  3. 30 Sept — 04 Oct
    4 nights

    Ioannina

    By car.

    First full day: the castle and the Archaeological Museum.

    Day trips Dodona · Nekromanteion · Nikopolis and the Victory Monument of Augustus

  4. 04 Oct — 05 Oct
    1 night

    Zagori

    By car.

    Visited the monastery and the village.

  5. 05 Oct — 06 Oct
    1 night

    Saranda

    Returned the car in Igoumenitsa, then by bus to Saranda.

  6. 06 Oct — 07 Oct
    1 night

    Tirana

    By bus.

  7. 07 Oct — 08 Oct
    1 night

    Podgorica

    Staying with my girlfriend's mother. Flight home from Podgorica.

28 Sept
Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece

Arriving in Corfu

Venetian forts, a French arcade and a saint who is said to have driven off an Ottoman army: two days in Corfu Town.

29 Sept
Parga, Epirus, Greece

A day in Parga

A Venetian outpost on an Ottoman coast, handed over in 1819, and a town that burned its ancestors' bones rather than leave them behind.

01 Oct
Ioannina, Epirus, Greece

Notes from Ioannina

A castle that is still a neighbourhood, a lake with a dark legend, and a museum full of the questions people once asked Zeus.

02 Oct
Dodona, Epirus, Greece

Dodona

The sanctuary is quieter than Delphi, stranger in its origins, and much easier to underestimate.