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Country 13: Ireland
Ireland, Ireland together standing tall, Shoulder to shoulder, We’ll answer Ireland’s call. Those stirring words from Ireland’s Call, as belted out by Irish rugby players and fans before matches, played…
Country 12: Andorra
That morning I awoke with severe backache, as if my lumbar discs had slipped into the gap between the front seats of my friend’s Fiat Uno, joining fag ends and…
Country 11: USA
Nowadays, it’s harder than ever to separate the USA from its politics, with blanket coverage of the torpedoes being launched from the Oval Office against the established global order. However,…
Country 100: Cape Verde
Yes, I finally made it!! For my regular readers, Cape Verde may seem a surprising choice for this milestone, famed as it is for its beaches rather than for historical…
Almaty’s green credentials
Almaty is one of the greenest cities I’ve seen, and I mean green in the old-fashioned not the eco-friendly sense. The architecture is more functional than aesthetically pleasing: modernist Soviet…
Nicosia: Europe’s last divided city
Once Europe’s longest pedestrianized street, Nicosia’s Ladras Street has been transformed by the so-called Green Line that divides the city. The street’s traditional Cypriot life has been replaced by typical…
Country 10: Switzerland
Fresh from a mid-summer glacier ski on the Jungfrau mountain, the fifteen-year-old me surveys the world… glimpsing a future packed with travel and adventure…
Country 9: Luxembourg
A slither of land wedged between the tourist magnets that are France, Germany and Belgium, Luxembourg is often overlooked on European tours, but the annals of history show…
Skopje: where crime sometimes pays
The last time I was in Skopje, I had come to persuade the Macedonian interior minister to sign up to a trans-Balkan action plan for tackling organised crime to be…
Kosovo: a friend indeed
I cannot claim it to be universal law, but I often find the friendliness and hospitality of a country’s inhabitants to be inversely proportionate to their recent troubles. So it…
Kotor
Arriving into Kotor by night, dizzy from sharp turns around the shores of the narrow, fjord-like bay that winds inland from the Adriatic, I was puzzled to see a yellow…
Country 8: Holland
A naturally flat and featureless landscape need not mean boring. Not when human ingenuity has garnished it with tulips and windmills…
Country 7: Belgium
What could I say about Belgium back then?… I left pretty much as I had arrived, with a jumble of impressions and stereotypes plus some blurry photos…
Country 6: Greece
A family holiday in Crete gave free reign to a young mind that had been devouring Greek mythology… in my dreams, lost in a labyrinth, I would come face to…
DUBROVNIK: WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE
Dubrovnik is sometimes described as a “living museum”, where its people live alongside one of Europe’s most stunning medieval walled cities. Naturally, locals commuting to work, doing the school run…
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