Stuart WadsworthApr 184 minThe Distant Barking of Dogs Film ReviewShortlisted for the Oscar race for Best Documentary Feature in 2018, The Distant Barking of Dogs vividly presents life near a heavy...
Stuart WadsworthApr 63 minWe Need to Talk About Putin Book Review Putin has convinced many Russians that he has raised their country from its knees. But for how much longer, asks this short book by Mark...
Stuart WadsworthMar 154 minNotes from the Dark Side: Imperium Book ReviewIn 1917 an entire world went mad; a madness that came to be called the Soviet Union. The persecutions and wars that began with the...
Stuart WadsworthMar 144 minA Frozen Hell: Mr Jones Film ReviewMr Jones film review, Ukraine, 1930s famine, Holodomor, Agnieszka Holland film, eastern Europe cinema
Stuart WadsworthMar 35 minBack in the USSR: Everything is Illuminated Film Review"Everything is Illuminated" (2005) is based on the first-time novel by Jewish-American writer Jonathan Saffron Foyer (2001), and it came...
Stuart WadsworthApr 13, 20208 minKrakow in the Time of Corona (Part 2)Easter's Damp Squib Easter in Poland, as in all deeply Christian countries, is an incredibly important time of coming together and...
Stuart WadsworthMar 22, 20206 minKraków in the Time of Corona (Part 1)Adoptive City I have never written a post about my adoptive home city of Kraków on this blog, and indeed I have generally overlooked it...
Stuart WadsworthMar 11, 20204 minTrenčín: A Town in Ten PicturesOverlooked City Slovakia is a country justifiably famed for its beautiful mountain scenery, stunning national parks, lakes and forests,...
Stuart WadsworthApr 9, 201910 minA Short Guide to SandomierzSando where? Small town Poland is, by and large, a fairly unremarkable affair. Unlike neighbouring Czech Republic, say, Poland's...
Stuart WadsworthMar 16, 201912 minA Short Guide to GdańskTumultuous History 'Gdansk' is, by Polish standards, an easy city to pronounce for foreigners. In many other ways though, it is perhaps...
Stuart WadsworthMar 11, 20198 minA Short Guide to LublinComing out of the Shadows Long in the shadows of hipper, more well-known destinations in Poland such as Kraków, Wrocław and Warsaw,...
Stuart WadsworthMar 6, 20197 minA Short Guide to OlomoucThe Hipster's Choice For many years now, Prague has completely dominated tourism in the Czech Republic, so much so that most other towns...
Stuart WadsworthMar 4, 20199 minA Short Guide to LvivA Lion-hearted city There are some cities in Eastern Europe which defy logic. Lviv to Ukrainians, Lwów to Poles, Lvov to Russians,...
Stuart WadsworthFeb 23, 201911 minA Short Guide to BudapestElegantly wasted Centre of Europe, grand old dame of the Habsburg Empire, inventor of ‘goulash communism’ and now emerging in the 21st...
Stuart WadsworthFeb 20, 20199 minA Short Guide to EgerBaroque Beauty Hungary, similar to nearby Czech Republic, is a country which is known chiefly for its capital, which dwarfs all other...
Stuart WadsworthFeb 12, 20197 minStill Crazy: Communist Tours of Nowa Huta Out of the box tourism Krakow: a city of dreaming spires, ancient castles, dragons, myths, cobbled streets, cosy bars and coffee shops;...
Stuart WadsworthFeb 9, 20199 minDipping Into Budapest's Thermal BathsFeeling the therms “This is the place where Budapest comes to chill out,” Laszlo, a banker in Pest, tells me. “many people come here to...
Stuart WadsworthAug 28, 20183 minA Short Guide to Wroclaw's River Odra and IslandsWhat? Why? Where? Wroclaw's island area is the soul to the Market Square's heart in Wrocław. Home to a growing number of cafes, bars and...
Stuart WadsworthJul 2, 20182 min Łódź - A City in Ten PicturesŁódź (pronounced 'Woodge') is a city for which the words 'gritty', 'down-to-earth' and 'unpretentious' barely do justice. It's Poland's...
Stuart WadsworthJun 11, 20189 minTo Hel and Back - Poland - A Baltic Bike Odyssey (Part 2/4)Foreword/Disclaimer This blog was originally written as a rather embittered email during a fairly lonely and frustrating bike tour in...