What to Do in Kotor
Most visitors to Kotor stay for just a few hours and focus only on the old town. Stay one or two nights and you can fit in these fun day trips.
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Hot Air Ballooning over Trakai
With some of the lowest prices in the world for hot-air ballooning as well as being one of the few cities in Europe that you’re allowed to fly over in a hot air balloon, Vilnius is possibly one of the best places to tick off that particular bucket list item. … Read More
Uoksas: A Foodie Oasis in Kaunas
Lithuania’s second city might be a a bit slow off the mark compared the culinary revolution afoot in the capital but there’s a place well worth visiting should you find yourself here. Working with mainly locally and preferably organically sourced ingredients the team here are challenging preconceptions about Lithuanian cuisine, … Read More
Our Top 10 Restaurants in Prague
From fine dining to burgers and pizza, these are our favorite places, the ones we take friends and family to when they come to Prague.
Where to Buy Event Tickets in Europe
Once you’ve booked your European vacation package the next thing to do is work out what you’re doing with your spare time. We’re often asked by our guests where they can buy tickets for cultural events, festivals and concerts so we’ve compiled this list of the most comprehensive and official … Read More
Kaziukas Folk Fair in Vilnius
Held in Vilnius annually in early March, the Kaziukas folk arts and crafts fair dates back to the early 17th century. The fair occupies a large part of the city center, from Gediminas Avenue, Cathedral Square, Pilies Street, all the way to the Orthodox Cathedral and almost to the borders … Read More
Bucharest’s Palace of Parliament
Described by its detractors as a giant Stalinist wedding cake, Bucharest’s Palace of Parliament, also referred to as the People’s Palace, is the second largest administrative building in the world after the Pentagon. Architect Anca Petrescu was just 28 years old when she designed this gargantuan edifice on the orders … Read More
Croatia’s Jewish Heritage Sites
Croatia’s religious landscape is overwhelmingly dominated by Roman Catholicism but the territory of Croatia has long been home to adherents of Judaism. While the Jewish population of Croatia was much smaller, at just 25,000, than countries like Germany with half a million or Czechoslovakia with around 350,000, Jewish communities had … Read More
Meet the Travel Addicts
In October 2014, JayWay Travel hosted Lance and Laura Longwell, authors of the popular Travel Addicts blog. We sat down with them to discuss travel and Budapest, Hungary. How long have you been traveling and blogging about travel? We both have a strong love of travel. Lance started as a … Read More
Lithuania Goes Large
2014 was our first season arranging travel in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Our first few visits to the region since 2011 concentrated on the capital cities: cutesy Tallinn with its cobbled streets, medieval walls and red-roofed old town. Big-city Latvia, a restored old town, art nouveau district … Read More