Recovering Macedonian national identity from history - a necessary prerequisite to statehood - is like extracting a metal from ore.  Sure, i...

Sofia has very old bones.  They are proudly (and pleasingly) exposed and incorporated within new development works throughout the city. An a...

Chisinau, pronounced kish-in-or with emphasis on the first syllable, is the least visited capital in Europe. It should be visited a lot more...

In Bucharest you can stand on a street corner and appreciate the utter jumbled jostling mess and glory of 500 years of European architecture...

Greece is probably the most beautiful country in the world. Its architecture, wrecked ancient and Venetian stone overgrown with vine. It’s f...

I find Istanbul a bit challenging because, to be perfectly honest, I strongly dislike religion and here religion is so very present everywhe...

Running Blind was a 1979 BBC miniseries based on the espionage thriller by Desmond Bagley. It involves a double cross, a knife with a ruby p...

Despite being a Danish possession, Greenland struck me (surprising me) as a lot more American than European. For starters it’s population is...

An absolute ball-tearer of a hike but thoroughly rewarding every day. 166km long with about 10,000m of both ascent and descent, through Fran...