My journey from Bucharest to Veliko Tarnovo was a bittersweet one. The train ride was supposed to be longish yet smooth. The first part, to the Romanian-Bulgarian border was really fine…
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Balkans
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If you follow me for a while you probably know very well that Sarajevo is one of my top 3 cities (together with Prague and Yerevan). There’re numerous reasons for that:…
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I don’t think I’ve heard many good things about visiting Bucharest (at least not until recently). The capital of Romania was always known as a grey, overwhelming city with a tragic…
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There is no other place like Sarajevo. And I don’t mean the breathtaking location of the place or the troubled recent history of the civil war and the siege. The capital…
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It’s hard to speak about Sarajevo street art. The city that had to struggle so much in recent years still tries to define itself in the new way and sadly a…
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Albania is the country I knew next to nothing about prior to my visit there (ok, maybe my knowledge of Moldova is even worse). But after hearing about so many people being impressed with…
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1425 days – 3 years, 10 months and 24 days. That’s how long Sarajevo was under the siege, surrounded by the Army of Republika Srpska. That’s how long the citizens of…
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I had pretty high hopes for the capital of Macedonia and especially alternative Skopje sights. After all every Balkan city has a really big potential when it comes to quirkiness and…
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If there’s one place everyone should visit in Macedonia it is undoubtedly Ohrid. This picturesque town lies on the shore of the lake with the same name, right at the border…
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Year 2014 was when I wandered around lots of beautiful yet unknown cities in Central Europe. After falling in love with Brno Czech Republic and rediscovered Graz Austria, Ljubljana Slovenia or Zagreb…
