Easter's Damp Squib Easter in Poland, as in all deeply Christian countries, is an incredibly important time of coming together and...

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...

Overlooked City Slovakia is a country justifiably famed for its beautiful mountain scenery, stunning national parks, lakes and forests,...

Sando where? Small town Poland is, by and large, a fairly unremarkable affair. Unlike neighbouring Czech Republic, say, Poland's...

Tumultuous History 'Gdansk' is, by Polish standards, an easy city to pronounce for foreigners. In many other ways though, it is perhaps...

Coming out of the Shadows Long in the shadows of hipper, more well-known destinations in Poland such as Kraków, Wrocław and Warsaw,...

The Hipster's Choice For many years now, Prague has completely dominated tourism in the Czech Republic, so much so that most other towns...

A Lion-hearted city There are some cities in Eastern Europe which defy logic. Lviv to Ukrainians, Lwów to Poles, Lvov to Russians,...

Elegantly wasted Centre of Europe, grand old dame of the Habsburg Empire, inventor of ‘goulash communism’ and now emerging in the 21st...

Baroque Beauty Hungary, similar to nearby Czech Republic, is a country which is known chiefly for its capital, which dwarfs all other...