Category Travels in Eastern Europe
Ljubljana
Ljubljana was one of the few capital cities of Europe I hadn’t seen, so in February 17 I put it right with a mega cheap 48 hour solo visit. Easyjet from Gatwick and an Airbnb room in a central flat for a total of £110 made it almost rude not to!I arrived after dark, so […]
Balkans Tour 2017 – Timisoara, The Final Act
After eight late September days away from the UK we had arrived in the sixth and final country of our mini-tour of the region. Had we left the best to last? On balance, we probably had. First up our accommodation. I promised the lovely hostess Miriana that I would write about her on my blog […]
Statues of Timisoara
I was struck by some of the statues on my recent visit to Timisoara, Romania…..
Balkans Tour 2017 – Statues of Skopje
Like that well known sticky brown yeast spread, you will either love or hate Skopje. There is no denying that a visit is a memorable experience. There are more statues there than the Louvre, British Museum & Uffizi put together! Here are a few examples.
Balkans Tour 2017 – The Environs of Skopje
You may have gathered that I do not like the ‘new’ Skopje, the €500million vanity project that looks like it was dreamt up by Liberace on acid. Thankfully we arrived armed with a couple of decent things to take in if, as was indeed the case, we wanted to escape the tackiness for a while. […]
The Pristina Express
A train journey in Kosovo taken from http://www.ontrack.blog, a blog dedicated to foreign train travel.
Balkan Tour 2017 – Proud Pristina
We had purposely booked a hotel close to the train station as we would be departing on the 07.10 next day. It had claimed to be just 200 metres from our departure point, but what it failed to mention was that this was though a trading estate, across a wasteland, down a muddy bank and […]
