Around 160 kilometers from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, is a small village. Its narrow streets, paved with cobblestones and houses all built with the same stone are...
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With the first snows of the winter having already fallen across emerging Europe, many people’s thoughts would have already turned to winter holidays, and to skiing...
Claudia Patricolo visits the Four Seasons Gresham Palace in Budapest, a rich part of the city's history and one of the finest hotels in Europe.
Adi Hadean is one of Romania's best-known, and best-loved, chefs. A former judge on the local edition of Masterchef he tells Craig Turp about the changing attitudes of...
Shakhil Shah speaks to Wojciech Smarzowski, director of Kler (Clergy), the most successful film in Polish history.
“You’re coming to Minsk to work in a hostel over the summer?” the lady opposite me on the train asks, incredulity stretching the skin around her eyes. “Yes,” I answer. I...
Lithuanian tourism has come a long way since independence, but more needs to be done to promote the country's many gems, particularly those located outside the capital.
You know I have been to Bratislava so many times and I have never been on the National Uprising Bridge before, I say to the taxi driver as we cross the Danube. You mean...
In a recent chat with Romanian superstar chef Adi Hădean (the full interview will be published in the upcoming winter edition of the Emerging Europe magazine), one of...
The Prague we know and love is an easily recognisable beast. The Czech capital has long been the big cheese of central European tourism, its alluring architecture and...
Tell me what you think about this whole issue of changing the country’s name, I ask a friend of mine as we walk past a massive statue of Alexander the Great surrounded...
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...
