News last month that Bulgaria had met the European Commission’s criteria for the lifting of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) and – implicitly – entry into the Schengen group of border-free countries was met with...
Tag - Postcards
“There is a bus stops on the square next to an oak tree close to the port,” I am told when I try to find out how to get to my apartment in Sarandë, a resort on the...
Can you sit there, in the next row? I am here with my family. With those words, a Reese Witherspoon wannabe lookalike asks me to make room for her as she takes off her...
I had high expectations ahead of my first ever visit to Prague, during the last week of August, as part of a summer school organised by the International Organisation...
Hungary’s Sziget, the fifth biggest music festival in the world, celebrated its 27th year between August 7 and 13, attracting more than half a million visitors. Besides...
After living in Poland’s capital Warsaw for almost a decade, I finally made my way to Poznań. It was a trip which was long overdue. The city itself is beautiful:...
Travelling the world on business can often be a challenge for a vegan. Conference organisers hardly ever offer meat and dairy-free options, and there’s usually...
Somebody told me that Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek and Ryan Reynolds spent the Easter holidays in the same place I did. I went to Poreč, they went to Poreč. I moved to...
For a moment I thought I was in Austria or in Bavaria. The music, the yodelling, the clothes. The restaurant our colleague chose for that night offered interesting...
Waking up in my home in Warsaw last Friday morning I had one thing on my mind: an Emerging Europe company weekend in Bucharest, Romania. While sad to leave the family...
“Good afternoon, I have an appointment with Cezary for 2:30pm,” I say as I arrive at a barber shop in central Warsaw. “Hi,” I hear back instead of a more formal “good...
It’s about 6am on December 30. It’s dark and freezing with quite a lot of snow around. I am at Tbilisi bus station waiting for a bus to Telavi in Georgia’s wine region...
