Travel Tramp is all about slow travel. I took the old Soviet sleeper train from Bucharest to Chisinau, on the long over land route between these two European capital cities. It was slow, sleepless and…did I say slow already? It was just how overland travel...
Transnistria. The perfect location for a get away holiday. Far from the madding crowds, really far from anywhere at all in fact. There’s beaches, cognac and KGB agents. The breakaway republic truly is a destination like no other. Read on if you too want the...
I was the only tourist in Moldova. Probably. I was visiting Chisinau, the inelegant, yet chaotically transfixing capital of this small state on the edge of Europe and there wasn’t another visitor in sight. That meant that all the abandoned theme parks,...
I can’t think of a great many better places to spend a few relaxing days on holiday than the heavily armed breakaway Republic of Transnistria. This is a country which doesn’t, technically, even exist. This unrecognised recognised nation is lost...
In April 2015 The Free Republic of Liberland declared itself the world’s newest state. The independent micronation was proclaimed on unclaimed territory between Croatia and Serbia by idealistic Libertarians from the Czech Republic, on a patch of derelict land...
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