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Ukraine

Radioactive Roadtrip: Keeping Calm in Chernobyl

By on April 11, 2014

 
It was the early hours of April 26th, 1986. The small city of Pripyat situated in what was then the Soviet Union had switched off their nuclear-power-run bedroom lights…


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Bulgaria

Bulgarias Magnificent Monastery: Rila Monastery

By on January 31, 2014

The magnificent Rila Monastery suddenly emerges in the southwest Rila Mountains. It is the largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria and being only a two hour…


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Romania

Avoiding prostitutes, gypsies and stray-dogs: Hitchhiking out of Bucharest

By on January 24, 2014

Hitchhiking: Allowing yourself to get in a vehicle with potential axe murderers, rapists and creeps. Not to mention the possibility of being kidnapped…


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Bulgaria

One Frosty Morning at Tsarevets Fortress

By on January 20, 2014

What was once most the most important political and spiritual heart in medieval Bulgaria, Tsarevets Fortress is now one of Bulgaria’s most popular attractions, and it’s not hard to see…


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Scotland

This Girl is on Fire, (seriously)

By on January 10, 2014

You may have heard of it, it’s kind of a big deal… At the end of the year tens of thousands of people make their way North to celebrate…