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...
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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...
August is a month for packing bags. More than 70 per cent of Italians own a holiday house somewhere close to the beach, and the remaining 30 per cent will eventually...
It’s the footwear which gives them away. Sandals, trainers, sometimes even flip-flops. It’s why Romanians call them pantofari, not an easy word to translate...
Completing the sentence “Before I die…”, which was written on a massive blackboard at the heart of Sziget this year, became one of the must-dos for music lovers...
Croatia’s musical legend Oliver Dragojević (pictured above), whose career lasted 50 years, passed away at the age of 70, one year after his lung cancer was diagnosed...
Despite being the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the largest in the Republika Srpska, tourism is still something of a new concept in Banja Luka. That...
English-born but proudly Kosovan pop star Dua Lipa is set to headline the Sunny Hill Music Festival in Priština on August 10, the biggest music festival ever to take...
