Category: Europe
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Adnan and Fabio in April ’92 were almost 19: one became a veteran of the Sarajevo siege, the other did not. In August 2025 I took an 8-day trip solo and using public transportation to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. Also because of the travel I did 3 nights in Bosnia and 5 in Serbia, in hindsight…
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Getting lost in the closed shopping center happened to me right at the conclusion of an otherwise very uneventful trip. My favorite city in Croatia is undoubtedly Split, the one that told me nothing about Rijeka. Two unpleasant events happened to me in both, but perhaps the one in Split was worse. Fine in Split…
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Wrong Travel Companions is a verbatim account of a series of case histories of wrong company, at least for me. The tobacconist, the cheapskate, the quarrelsome, the souvenir hunter, the selfie-taker, and the one who walks around with dirty underwear in his hand: here is a roundup of anecdotes taken from different trips. Above all,…
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For the last part of the trip I kept my first naturist camping experience. From the mainland on the Island of Krk you arrive by an extraordinary bridge. I won’t tell you about the succession of spectacular landscapes. While the town of the same name, (like the others) is a typical seaside village that you…
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Once I put my feet and car on the ground, the trip to Croatia became itinerant; on my mymaps the itinerary. Croatia trip begins from Dubrovnik In Dubrovnik I first headed by car to Mt. Srg, 5 minutes by cable car cost 27 euros; the view is worth it, and there is also an interesting…
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To make only one trip to the Balkans would be reductive. The region is very large and with really different territories. But because of that, it is interesting to be able to do different countries in the same trip. From the placid Slovenian valleys where it feels like Switzerland, to the Turkish markets of Bosnia…
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The solo weekend in Madrid in April 2005 was very illustrative of my experience in traveling while ill. It was my first in Spain. In retrospect it is certainly not my favorite city. But if I went back twice, it didn’t suck for me either, quite the contrary! It was an impromptu getaway in a…
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Having fun in Spain is easy; certainly it is the country where the opportunities are greatest. In 2007, the fashion for doing the Camino de Santiago was not as widespread as it is today, and I had not yet taken up trekking. I intended to discover Spain, not limiting myself to weekends in the larger…
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Christmas in the Balearics and traveling with Mom, were diversions during visits to my brother who lives in Barcelona. In 2023, 11 months after the previous time I returned to Catalonia and it was an impromptu thing. My mom had been traveling quite a bit with my deceased father for a year and a half.…
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Here I am live from Berlin, where I came to celebrate my birthday with a quick, solo tour of two cities (the other being Dresden) that I had seen before. I had seen Berlin in 2002 on a two-week itinerant trip, again solo, but under very different conditions than today. The trip was good, but…