Back in the summer of 2025, a few of my friends were organizing a roadtrip with their Polish buddies through the Balkans. Not being one to miss out on a quality roadtrip – I asked if I could come too. Then my brother asked, then my roommate, then my buddy’s girlfriend. Before we knew it – we had 9 people, and the odyssey had only just begun.

Over the two weeks of the trip, we visited many countries, interacted with Europeans of many nationalities, and drank and ate our way through a dozen municipalities.

Naturally I had to chronicle this trip somehow, and with my recent obsession with cartography on the mind – a map was the natural answer.