Moldova is the poorest country in Europe. It’s landlocked, there’s conflict with breakaway territories and most of the population live below the poverty line. It’s got its problems and during my stay in the capital Chisinau, I learnt first hand that...
Skopje. The Macedonian capital and a city of statues. This ancient city has stood in the heart of the Balkans for centuries, it’s changed hands between Empires, Kingdoms and rulers and now it’s a city that’s found its own independence, a diverse city...
In December 1989 Nicolae Ceausescu gave his last speech as leader of communist Romania from the balcony of the Communist Party Headquarters in Bucharest. Romania’s dictator fled as the crowds began to jeer, and within days the country was up in arms against the...
“Hey guys! Fancy spearfishing?” Mad Jon came out of his beach side hut, with spear gun in hand to tempt us out onto the ocean. It didn’t take much persuading before we were climbing into the boat and getting ready for our first experience...
War and Peace in Ukraine. Is Kiev Safe To Travel To? This was a question I pondered furiously over in Moldova when deciding where in Eastern Europe I should travel to next, is Kieva safe to travel to? I could go back to Romania, but that was the way I’d just...
In Cappadocia, I went underground with New Goreme Tours. Cappadocia is renowned for its surreal, at times even psychedelic landscape. The wind and the rain have for millennia shaped the contours of this land into an hallucinogenic, other worldly spectacle, while the...
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