In Photos: Magnificent Brutalist and Modernist Bus Stations
Photos featuring ten of coolest brutalist and modernist bus stations we’ve spotted on our travels, highlighting some magnificent architecture.
How to get from Varna to Chisinau via the Danube Delta
How to get from Varna to Chisinau via the Danube Delta. A step-by-step guide on how to travel from Bulgaria to Moldova via Romania by public transport.
In Photos: Street Art in Abandoned Buildings
Derelict spaces provide the perfect canvas for graffiti and street art It was a recent (October 2019) visit to a derelict villa in central Croatia that was once frequented by Tito that prompted me to write about street art in abandoned buildings. It was late afternoon...
Off the beaten track Slovenia – Velenje’s socialist-era Tito Square
Travel off-the-beaten-track in Slovenia and visit Velenje. The town’s socialist-era Tito Square has a lot of interesting architecture, sculptures and monuments.
Alternative Ljubljana: What to see with a map of locations
Off-the-Beaten-Path and Alternative Ljubljana - What to see away from the Old Town Ljubljana, officially one of the prettiest cities in the Balkans/Central Europe … Not when we get our hands on it! Abandoned hotels, decent street art, some superb modernist...
Abandoned Bulgaria: The former summer villa of Pencho Semov, Bulgaria’s “Rockefeller”
Abandoned Bulgaria: urban exploration at an abandoned villa, and the story behind the former summer villa of Pencho Semov, Bulgaria’s “Rockefeller”.
Communist monuments in Bulgaria – Striking communist-era monuments and memorials
A photo essay featuring twenty-five of the most impressive communist monuments and memorials in Bulgaria.
In photos: Twenty-five examples of Soviet mosaics in the former USSR
Mosaics of the former USSR - the iconic works of art that are part of Soviet cultural heritage We’ve always admired Soviet-era mosaics when we come across them in the past but, lately, and in particular in Moldova and the breakaway de facto state of Transnistria,...
Guide to visiting Comrat in the autonomous region of Gagauzia, Moldova
Comrat - getting off the beaten track in Moldova We were sold on the idea of going to Comrat, capital of the autonomous region of Moldova known as Gagauzia (more on that later), after reading an article about it in The Guardian newspaper. It was a classic case of...
Visiting the Danube Delta in Romania
What to do in the Danube Delta and how to get there Ask a local for a list of the most beautiful places in Romania and there’s a good chance the Danube Delta will be on it (in fact, some friends first urged us to visit some eight years ago). And yet, it’s an area of...
Communist-era architecture in Chisinau, Moldova (including a map of locations)
Alternative Chisinau - Soviet architecture in the Moldovan capital Chisinau, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Moldova, will not win any prizes for architectural attractiveness, but this is hardly surprising given the city’s recent history. A huge...
In Photos: Street Art in Sisak, Croatia
An unexpected bonus of our brief stay in Sisak was finding some fantastic street art. We hadn’t planned to go street art hunting in Sisak; in fact, we hadn’t planned to go to Sisak at all. But during our spomenik-hunting road trip last autumn, we made a...