Central & Eastern Europe 2/2

To Hel and Back - Poland - A Baltic Bike Odyssey (Part 1/4)

The Polish Baltic - under-rated? The Baltic: hardly conjures up any exotic images in your mind, does it? A frost-bitten, windy, deserted...

Anthony Bourdain: The Travelling Gourmand

Friday's sad news that Anthony Bourdain had taken his own life at the age of 61 prompted me to write the first of my articles for the...

Xmas Trip to Belarus (Part 4/4) - Literary Ghosts and Borderlands - Mir, Novogrudek & Grodno

The Mystery of Mickiewicz Novogrudok is an unassuming town between Minsk and Grodno which, with the freezing sleet and slush in which we...

Xmas Trip to Belarus (Part 3/4) - The Wild East: Vitebsk & Polotsk

Flat as a Pancake Traversing Belarus from west to east and back again in the middle of winter is a curious choice of holiday it must be...

Xmas Trip to Belarus (Part 2/4) - Minsk: Blast From the Past

Alternative Christmas After a couple of pleasant if uneventful days spent wondering around Brest’s provincial streets we moved to the...

Xmas Trip to Belarus (Part 1/4) - Brest: Stepping Back In Time

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true inspiration in art and science” – Albert...

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