Dracula’s Castle

Vlad Dracula Expedition – Romania – Halloween – 2023

Kirsten Koza / October 31, 2022

This is sold out for 2023 and for 2024, but we can put you on a cancellation list…

Vlad Dracula Expedition, Romania, Halloween 2019

Kirsten Koza / November 26, 2018

You’re invited to join our annual Vlad Dracula Expedition – a seven-day dinner party through Romania celebrating both…

Vlad Dracula Expedition, Romania – Halloween 2018

Kirsten Koza / October 24, 2017

(SOLD OUT AND COMPLETED) – see 2019’s details The Vlad Dracula Expedition 2018 – a seven-day dinner party…

In bookstores!

Wake Up and Smell the Shit: Hilarious Travel Disasters, Monstrous Toilets and a Demon Dildo edited by "the Canadian lunatic" Kirsten Koza.

"A hilarious journey to the other side of travel - A collection of rollicking tales by veteran travel writers who share the common, horrific side of travel. You'll laugh, shudder and wince. A must read." - Deston Nokes (Travel Writer)

"Forged in a Den of Scum and Villainy..."
Read this review and a sample at Amazon.

Lost in Moscow: A Brat in the USSR by Kirsten Koza

CBC Radio Canada declares Koza’s Lost in Moscow “the ultimate what-I-did-last-summer essay ever.”

CHRY radio Toronto says “Kirsten Koza is like Judy Blume on acid.”

Lost in Moscow is now available as an e-book from Kindle and Kobo internationally.

Kirsten’s adventure “Mare’s Milk, Mountain Bikes, Meteors & Mammaries; a nipply night in nomad’s land” has been published by Travelers' Tales in The Best Women’s Travel Writing, a collection of the best travel stories from 2012.

Click here to see photos from Kirsten’s cycling expedition in Kyrgyzstan.

Kirsten’s story “Easter Island and the Chilean with the Brazilian” is in Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana.

Click here to see photos from Kirsten’s Easter Island bike trip.

Kirsten’s story “Chasing Tornadoes” is in The Best Women’s Travel Writing Volume 9.