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about 1 month ago

Albania, or Shqipëria **How does it feel to live in a country everyone calls by the wrong name? How does it shape the nation’s psyche? Is Albania Alba, white in Latin? Some of the rocks indeed are. A…

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6 months ago

Isla de Tabarca **Saint Paul might have been apostolus gentium , but he didn't exactly have his sea legs. He shipwrecked, for instance, in St. Paul's Bay on Malta (talk about a stroke of…

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6 months ago

Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum **Yes, it's true! Guilty as charged... Once again, I'm a few weeks behind when it comes to sharing my travel escapades on my favorite blockchain. Let my excuse be that in…

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8 months ago

Piraeus **The Liverpool of Greece. Way more Greek than multicultural Athens; and don’t you even dare mix the two up: “Pireote, not Athenian!” Who cares that the two cities share public…

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8 months ago

The Acropolis **Is there a spot in this world where anyone with a beating heart surrenders to the idea that the Twelve Olympians still reign? Where Zeus throws lightning bolts and hunts for…

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10 months ago

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Reading Room **A few years ago, I’d had to thread a maze to be amazed by this very coffee shop. Take one of the mouseholes in the New Town tenements (don’t get misled by the tricky name…

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11 months ago

Advent in Brașov **Romanians love Christmas all lit up, and I must say I get the charm of it. I haven’t seen a single sunbeam since I came back to Prague. All I get is thick, low-hanging clouds.…

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11 months ago

Stalin Goes to Hollywood: The Tâmpa Hike **Cheeky, huh? That Hollywood-style sign above Brasov, one of the fanciest places to go skiing in Romania. A must-take-a-selfie spot for all the Instagrammers, preferably with a…

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11 months ago

Sì, Silly Sicily: Catania **When the music’s over, turn out the lights. And when the adventure’s over, get on your flight. Both are the end of an era, perhaps a tiny little personal one, but still an era.…

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11 months ago

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Flighty **Being flighty when gales blow, calm in stillness. Just like Prague, Mater Urbium , a matron to scattered souls. And I mean those jigsawed as time went by—and even chewed…

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