I’ll be straight with you: Bucharest wasn’t supposed to be the point. I was passing through on my way south, gave myself two days to tick a box, and fully expected to leave with mild indifference. That’s not what happened. It’s a city that looks like it can’t quite decide what it is — Ottoman […]
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Everyone who visits Poland eventually ends up in the same conversation. “You have to go to Auschwitz.” And they’re not wrong — Auschwitz-Birkenau is one of the most important sites of the 20th century and it deserves its weight. But I’d been before. And this time, I wanted to understand something different. So I took
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I didn’t plan to stay five days in Tbilisi. I booked three nights, told myself I’d move on to the mountains, and then just… didn’t. Something about the city makes it surprisingly hard to leave — and I don’t mean that in a poetic way. I mean the wine is cheap, the food is excellent,
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Everyone assumes Austria means Vienna. The coffee houses, the Schönbrunn, the Sachertorte. And fair enough — Vienna is genuinely great. But I’d already been, and this time I wanted mountains. So I booked a bus to Hallstatt and spent a week in the Salzkammergut region doing something I don’t do enough: actually walking somewhere instead
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