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The Divided City of Mitrovica in Kosovo
History and politics in Kosovo are complicated and it doesn’t get much more complicated than Mitrovica, a small city in the north of the country. Read about our visit to the divided city of Serbian North Mitrovica and Kosovan Mitrovica.
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The Air Force Command Building in Belgrade, Serbia
The 1999 NATO bombing of the Serbian capital is well documented. It’s hard to miss the bombed-out shell of the former Yugoslav Ministry of Defence building on Nemanjina Street in the heart of the city and if you head round the back of St. Mark’s Church in Tasmajdan...
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An A to Z of Ukraine
Ukraine Travel Inspiration from A to Z Last weekend we got back from Ukraine. It was our fourth trip to this eastern European gem in three years and this time we spent six weeks travelling to 18 towns and cities (15 that were new to us). At a very rough estimate, we...
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Suggested Itinerary to Poland, Czech & Slovakia: Warsaw to Kosice
ITINERARY SUMMARY (Poland) Warsaw - Lodz - Poznan - Wroclaw - Kłodzko - Kudowa-Zdroj (Czech Republic) - Brno - Olomouc - Ostrava - Cesky Tesin (Poland) - Cieszyn (Slovakia) - Kosice After a few days in Warsaw, we opted for the Polski Bus to get us to Lodz, but there...
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Somewhere different … Girona in Spain
Girona’s airport is served by several low-cost carriers these days so quite a few people use it as a means of getting to nearby Barcelona and other places along the Spanish coast. It was a couple of cheap flights from Morocco to Malta via Spain that took us via...
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Suggested Balkans Itinerary: Podgorica to Corfu Town the Long Way
ITINERARY SUMMARY (Montenegro) Podgorica - Kotor - Ulcinj (Albania) - Shkoder (Shkodra) - Tirana (Kosovo) - Prizren - Decani - Pristina (Macedonia) - Skopje - Bitola - Ohrid (Albania) - Berat - Gjirokastra - Saranda (Greece) -Corfu Town The Montenegro capital of...
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The Magnificent Seven – Part I – Kensal Green Cemetery | London
A Photo Essay from one of London's Historical Graveyards Apparently, if you like visiting graveyards, and we do, then you are known as a ‘tombstone tourist’. I like the expression and personally, I don't think there is anything macabre about visiting cemeteries. On...
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Cambodia Itinerary: Phnom Penh to Siem Reap via Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri
ITINERARY SUMMARY Phnom Penh - Kompong Cham - Kratie - Sen Monorom - Ban Lung - Stung Treng - Preah Vihear City - Sra Em - Anlong Veng - Siem Reap After a few days in Phnom Penh, we began our journey to Cambodia’s eastern provinces with a few days in Kompong Cham, a...
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Visiting the site of the Sajmište Concentration Camp in New Belgrade
If you take a stroll across Branko's Bridge in the direction of New Belgrade and look back over your right shoulder you will get a fine view of Savamala, one of Belgrade’s most interesting neighbourhoods. But peer to your left, in the direction of New Belgrade, and...
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