Daily stash of pastries and burek from Пекара Трпковић (Trpković Bakery) Who says that the sequel is never as good as the original? Returning to Belgrade marked a homecoming for me to the Balkans, the place where the seeds of my solo backpacking journey took root. My first…
After circling the block of the Georgian National Museum three times because google maps swore the Museum of Soviet Occupation was in a separate building/location, I finally popped into the massive museum to ask for directions. It turns out the Museum of Soviet Occupation occupies the top floor of the National Museum and everything is included in one joint ticket. (Essentially it is not a separate museum, but an entire wing of the National Museum devoted to life during Soviet times, but to label it as such would just be too easy!)
“You went to Dublin and didn’t visit the Guinness Storehouse?!” “Not only did I visit neither the Guinness Storehouse nor the Jameson Distillery, but I managed to spend nearly a week in Dublin without drinking a drop of beer or whiskey.” That’s usually a conversation stopper right…
Despite the massive increase in tourism Iceland has experienced over the past decade, Reykjavík has (mostly) been able to retain its off-beat vibe. Iceland is one of the top twenty wealthiest countries in the world (by GDP per capita) and is consistently ranked as one of the…