A ward-winning writer and photographer Rudolf Abraham recently returned from the vast , watery wilds of Lake
Skadar National Park in
Montenegro – the largest lake in the Balkans , surrounded by reed beds and mountains – and from the frozen lakes and forests of Finnish Lapland .
Magazine work over the past few months has included features for OE , Morning Calm , France , Geographical , Hidden Europe , NADFAS Review , The National , Woman ’ s Own and The Telegraph , and has taken him from the Tuscan Riviera to the Czech Republic , Finland and the mountains of Albania and Montenegro – in search of the rare Dalmatian pelican , photographing the world of Czech puppet makers , and snow-shoeing through Oulanka
National Park , close to the Finnish- Russian border . Books due out this year include the first English language guidebook to the Peaks of the Balkans – a 200km trail through the spectacularly rugged , wild and remote borderlands of Montenegro , Albania and Kosovo ( Cicerone ) – and a new edition of his Istria guidebook ( Bradt ).
Earlier this month his feature for France magazine on excavating dinosaur remains in Charente won an award for Best Cultural Feature in the French Travel Media Awards .
Upcoming trips include Germany ( Elbe Cycle Route , Saxon Switzerland National Park , Wittenberg ), Austria ( Salzburger Almenweg , and revisiting some stages of the Alpe Adria Trail ), Sweden ( kayaking ), Slovenia , Croatia , the Channel Islands and Normandy . Commissions welcome ...!
Lake Skadar Roly , Bill National and BBC Park Breakfast , Montenegro producer Claire © Rudolf Rogerson Abraham at Edale