This is Bulgaria. I speak Bulgarian. I don’t speak English or Chinese, says Plamen, a short and skinny taxi driver in his late fifties. He is quite assertive in his...
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Lithuania’s latest modern art institution has opened its doors with a four-day event celebrating the country’s best modern artists. Formerly known as the Modern...
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, this is the captain speaking. On my behalf, the first officer and our kind cabin crew we welcome you onboard this Wizz Air flight...
Holy Legionary Youth: Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania, by Roland Clark The next time anyone tries to convince you that the Romanian Legionary Movement of the 1930s...
The Slovenian capital Ljubljana took home Emerging Europe’s award for Tourism Campaign of the Year 2018, seeing off fierce competition from a number of other countries...
Hi, can I order a vegan meal for my flight to Bucharest please? At the other end of the line, an agent at Tarom – Romania’s national airline – replies in Romanian. I had...
“Craftsmanship may suggest a way of life that waned with the advent of industrial society – but this is misleading. Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human...
Just to be clear — I am not planning on climbing Mount Mepistskharo, which at 2850 metres is the highest peak in the Meskheti Range, a part of the Lesser Caucasus in...
Very excited about my first ever visit to Batumi I am on my way to catch my train. But unlike in all the other places that I have visited, the railway station in Tbilisi...
The largest city in eastern Hungary, Debrecen is an elegant place long-famed, like many towns in this part of the country, for its healing thermal waters, here set in...
Multi-award winning chef Ana Ros is one of the best-known Slovenians in the world, particularly since her appearance on Netflix’s Chef’s Table series. And yet as she...
Craig Turp dives deep into the past - and the present - of the Athénée Palace Hilton in Bucharest, the first in a new series featuring the finest hotels in emerging...
