by Mark | Feb 26, 2020 | Abkhazia
In the summer of 2018, we visited the little-known de facto sovereign state of Abkhazia. While exploring the capital city, Sukhumi, we stumbled across this building. It appeared to be an abandoned medical centre (I’ll call it that as such). I can find zero information...
by Mark | Dec 30, 2019 | Croatia
You wouldn’t know it these days, but this rickety pile of concrete and wood on the outskirts of Rijeka, Croatia’s third-largest city, was once the most important location in the world for the development of maritime weaponry. To be more specific, it was the birthplace...
by Mark | Nov 20, 2019 | Tunisia
Covering a landmass of 514 km2, Djerba, also spelt Jerba or Jarbah, is an island in the Mediterranean Sea just off the coast of southern Tunisia. Prior to the first quarter of 2015, it was a popular beach and culture destination for tourists from all over Europe. For...
by Mark | Nov 3, 2019 | Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Street Art, Taiwan, Thailand
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...
by Mark | Oct 10, 2019 | Bulgaria
Exploring an eerie abandoned villa in Gabrovo, Bulgaria Gabrovo, a small city in central Bulgaria, was on our radar because we were looking for an early 1970s statue of Yuri Gagarin, the famous Soviet cosmonaut. We knew from prior research that the monument had...
by Mark | Aug 3, 2019 | Bulgaria
On finding an abandoned swimming pool with beautiful mosaics in Bulgaria It was a last-minute decision to try and find this abandoned swimming pool in Lovech, a small city in central Bulgaria. In fact, 30 minutes before setting foot inside the place, we had no idea of...
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