A day in the life
It’s 7:59am. All is quiet in a darkened room in Bucharest. Blankets lie discarded on the floor. The room was hot…
Central and Eastern Europe
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Croatia’s Plitvice Lakes: just go there already
I’d been to Croatia once before, spending a few days in the northwest of the country back in 2006. While the…
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Scenes from Eger (that don’t involve wine)
Eger, a large town in the north of Hungary, is famous for several things – the quality of its wines, its…
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Briefly Budapest
Working out how long to spend in a place you’ve never been is tough. You try to be all scientific about…
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Changing impressions of Prague
The train ride from Frankfurt to Prague had been simple. We turned up a few minutes before it was due to…
