A new creative hub is developing in South London. Poor, dangerous and dilapidated. For decades, Brixton was a place where most Londoners wouldn’t be caught dead. This popular Southwestern district is famous, or should we say infamous, for being the backdrop of multiple episodes of racial tension that reached a high point with the Brixton Riots in 1981. But things ...
Paris is one of those places that you could never get enough of, no matter how many times you visit.The City of Light is as changing and dizzying as it’s eternal and immutable. Time here seems to pass differently. For this reason, a while ago I decided to drop by the French capital for the third time. I must admit ...
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 being the mind behind the most ambitious urban change in the history of Bucharest. At the top of this architectural ...
—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 answer is usually a smile, a nod and some vague phrase agreeing with them, saying that traveling solo is a ...
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 my visits to the Romanian capital, these are my recommendations for unmissable things to see in Bucharest. Romanian Parliament This ...
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 Oktoberfest, Brussels couldn’t stay behind. Raspberry, chocolate, cherry, white and Lambic are some of the 400 kinds of ales you ...
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 she has to make do with swimming in a little fountain located on the Rynek Starego Miasta Square, right in ...
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 Segovia has three must-see monuments; the Roman Aqueduct, the Cathedral and its famous castle, known as el Alcázar de Segovia. ...
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 and costed around €12. My original plans included a visit to Meteora, however, in order to get there I would ...
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 was coming from. Naples is, without a doubt, a place like no other. Dirty, noisy, decadent and not very safe, ...