As you probably worked out from the last post, I’ve been on holiday again. So, as is tradition - here’s the usual photo story. The pictures come from various West Balkanite countries; Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia. Facebook users will probably need to click through to the original article link to see the video.

The rest of the photos, including the ones in the video above will be on Blakepics shortly (as soon as I’ve got my server running again). Likewise, a full quality version of the video will be here. The music, “Let me be myself” by 3 Doors Down.

Incidentally, more blog posts from the trip are also on the way. Some are drafts, some are notes, some probably don’t exist yet - but they’ll be spreading across the site like mould on bread very shortly.

For the past week, I’ve been in The Netherlands. It was the first holiday for a very long time where I haven’t actively blogged along the way. So that might all come as a retrospective at some point.

In the meantime, I’ll sum it up extremely briefly as:

• Coffee shops that actually sell coffee in Amsterdam, are referred to as Café’s
• Weed, ‘Shrooms, Prostitutes
• The most racist of the festive holidays I’ve experienced so far
• Singstar in Dutch- it’s the taking part that counts
• Van Gogh, Andy Warhol and most importantly, Heringa/ Van Kalsbeek

These may form the subjects of some posts, at some point… For now, enjoy the usual photo story below. Or check out the full quality version. For Facebook users reading this - yes, you need to click through for the vid

The rest of the photos, including the ones in the video above are on Blakepics. Credit for some of these photos also goes to Chorna. The music, “Before it’s too late” by The Goo Goo Dolls.

All the pictures from Turkey are now on Blakepics, with a selection in the video below.

Alternatively, check here for the full quality version of the Turkey video. The music is “Beautiful Disaster” by John McLaughlin.