Nicolae Ceausescu is the name of the man who ruled Romania with an iron fist from 1967 until his execution in 1989. A known megalomaniac with delusions of grandeur, this authoritarian dictator is known, among other (mostly horrendous) things, for ...
—So you like to travel solo?, that’s great! I bet you get to meet a lot of people!. This is how conversations always go when I tell my friends about any recent trip that I’ve done on my own. The ...
Bucharest isn’t what you’d typically imagine when considering Eastern European charm. Not many folks would call it beautiful, but I beg to differ. Bucharest has its own brand of beauty and is packed with interesting spots to visit. Based on ...
What happens when you have a country with one of the strongest beer-brewing traditions in Europe and mix it with what could possibly be the prettiest square in the world? The answer is easy: the Belgian Beer Weekend. Munich has ...
One of the things that Warsaw and Copenhagen have in common is having a mermaid statue as a symbol of the city. The main difference though, is that the Polish version is 200 miles away from the nearest coastline, so ...
For some reason, out of all the cool places I was going to visit during my trip to Castilla y León in central Spain, Segovia was one of the places I was excited about the most. You could say that ...
I guess you could say I visited Skopje almost by accident, after crossing most of continental Greece by train and discovering in Thessaloniki that there was a direct train that stopped in the Macedonian capital on its way to Belgrade ...
A few months ago, before I even considered visiting Naples, I read somewhere that if Naples wan’t the least European city in Europe, at least it was the least Italian in Italy. I can totally understand now where that comment ...
Somebody once said that the deepest conversations between friends take place in total silence, and Lisbon is a true expert in silence. The portuguese tranqüilidade is probably one of the traits that differentiate Portuguese from their neighbors to the east. ...
Goethe described Prague as “the most precious of the jewels in the crown of cities”. I can assure you I don’t intend to disagree with the German poet. I fell in love Prague the first time I saw a picture ...
