By the time this post goes live, I should already be setting out on what promises to be an interesting — and fattening — 1.5 weeks. The team of Our Tasty Travels is headed out on a pretty epic European foodie adventure, which may be just as fun as those unmissable UK road trips, in conjunction with our upcoming Croatian culinary cruise with Katarina Line on October 16.

Some of the countries we are passing through one or both of us have visited on numerous occasions, so we are likely to just drive straight through those. I want to concentrate on exploring a few of the new countries we will be passing through like Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Albania. However, I’ve set a rule in place – if we cross a country line, we MUST try something local to eat and drink. And with me, that probably means bringing a bottle of wine, beer, or liquor home as well. But if other people were to spend more time in such countries, they can try packages like that Dubrovnik sunset cruise.

As it stands now, our route (dependent on weather obviously) is as follows:

1. Netherlands (starting point)
2. Cologne, Germany
3. Plzen, Czech Republic
4. Vienna, Austria
5. Bratislava, Slovakia
6. Budapest, Hungary
7. Timisoara, Romania
8. Belgrade, Serbia
9. Sofia, Bulgaria
10. Skopje, Macedonia
11. Kosovo
12. Shkodra, Albania
13. Herceg Novi, Montenegro
14. Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina
15. Dubrovnik, Croatia
16. Split Croatia
17. Opatija, Croatia (where our #kvarnerfood cruise embarks)
18. Koper, Slovenia
19. Venice, Italy
20. San Marino
21. Vaduz, Liechtenstein
22. Zurich, Switzerland
23. Strasbourg, France
24. Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
25. Liege, Belgium
26. The Netherlands (home)

Total: 5,638 km, 64 hours driving time, 23 countries.

This is quite a lofty goal, especially knowing how side tracked I get by destinations, scenery, and food. Not to mention how much I hate mornings…absolutely, intensely loathe mornings. Have I mentioned how much I despise mornings?? If anything, I should get pretty familiar with coffee in every country we spend the night in.

If you have any local recommendations on must try food and drink, please let me know! Follow us on Facebook and on Twitter using the hashtag #TastyRT13. Some of the countries we are passing through are not part of our roaming service on the Dutch phones so we may not update until settling in the hotel at night.