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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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Romania

I live in a Communist Gypsy City

By on February 9, 2014

More often than not when my friends back home in Adelaide discover that I am temporarily calling Bucharest home I am confronted with a recurring question: “Where’s that?”  A…


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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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Ukraine

Rocky Road to the Carpathians

By on December 15, 2013

I needed an idea for my final Ukrainian destination. As much as I was enjoying Ukranian cities being so alive with the strong scent of revolution in the air…