by Mark | Dec 5, 2019 | Architecture, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Transnistria, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates
Ten of the coolest bus terminals we have seen on our travels It was a recent trip to Abu Dhabi that inspired me to look through our archive of photos and see if I could muster up enough images to create a post about bus stations. I know what you are thinking, and I...
by Mark | Oct 28, 2019 | Slovenia
Known as Titovo Velenje (Tito’s Velenje) between 1981 and 1990 in honour of the former Yugoslav leader, Slovenia’s sixth-largest city is home to one of the most impressive socialist-era town squares we have seen anywhere in the former Yugoslavia. Velenje’s...
by Mark | Aug 26, 2019 | Architecture, Moldova
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...
by Mark | Apr 22, 2019 | Abkhazia, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine
Soviet modernism is an extraordinary and imaginative genre of architecture. I’m fascinated by it and even Kirsty is often astonished by some of the examples I drag her off to see! But I suspect that not everyone knows what Soviet Modernism implies so let me first...
by Mark | Feb 19, 2019 | Latvia
Approximately 25km west of the Latvian capital, Riga, Jūrmala is a sprawling resort town that stretches along the Baltic Sea for about 30km. The beach is wide, sandy and backed by grassy dunes and a dense pine forest. It’s a lovely spot, especially outside of the...
by Mark | Oct 28, 2018 | Armenia
Searching for Gyumri’s iron fountain and discovering the surrounding neighbourhood While taking a stroll around Gyumri, Armenia’s second largest city, we walked into the eye of the most incredible storm. It was late afternoon and we were on the outskirts, heading in...
