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 halo hanging overhead. At daybreak, the mystery was soon solved: the ‘halo’ became gravity-defying fortifications slung down the steep mountainside behind town from a small […]
A naturally flat and featureless landscape need not mean boring. Not when human ingenuity has garnished it with tulips and windmills…
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…
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 face with the minotaur…
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 or their weekly shop may seldom pause to admire the finer points of the old town’s baroque architecture or even its picturesque location, squashed between […]
My first visit to Spain was pretty stereotypical: sun, sea and sangria on a package holiday. Alright, not much sangria since I was only 14, but…
It was another school trip, this time for skiing. That week I spent more time on my bum than on my skis. By the time I finally got the hang of it…
My first ever flight is still one of my longest…. My school released me in return for doing a trip project; the one fact that stuck with me is…
A short hop across the Channel and an obligatory day trip for many English schoolchildren, it’s no surprise that…
There can be few places where the scars of the Bosnian War remain so evident today: buildings pocked with bullet holes, split by shells or shorn of their roofs, and the quaint old town, with its iconic medieval bridge, looks as sparkling new as a Vegas imitation. Of course, the immediate aftermath of the Bosnian […]
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