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23 July 2022. Kyrgyzstan was the final stop on our tour of the Stans. Each Stan (literally «land») had its own particularity, its own...

(*local tourist slogan) 17 July 2022. Most Central Asian states have a unique selling point. For Uzbekistan it’s antiquity, for...

12 July 2022 Our routine arriving at an airport in Central Asia, after clearing customs, was to buy a local SIM card in the arrivals hall...

9 July 2022. Along with Khiva and Samarkand, Bukhara is one of Uzbekistan's showpieces. It is also Central Asia’s holiest city, with...

5 July 2022 Samarkand being only a 35km taxi ride away from the frontier with Tajikistan, we decided to spend a few days in this next...

3 July 2022 The journey from Tashkent to Samarkand was probably our least memorable experience in Central Asia. The fast train (2 hours)...

30 June 2022 When we arrived in Tashkent on our Uzbekistan Airways flight from Tblisi, the temperature was 43 Celcius as we left the...

24 June 2022 Christianity spread to the former Kingdom of Armenia soon after the death of Jesus, though it took until the early 4th...

22 June 2022 Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, is a 6-7 hour marshrutka (shared minivan) journey from Tbilisi. The scenery en route is...

17 June 2022 After having visited 10 countries within just three weeks, it was high time to chill so we packed a travel bag and took the...

13 June 2022 Contrary to popular belief, many Georgians know their homeland as Sakarvelo. It’s not entirely clear where «Georgia» came...

10 June 2022 Strolling the streets of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, you sense that the pace of change is as rapid as the current of...

7 June 2022 Flying in from Vilnius, we met up with Sam that evening in front of our small hotel in the Old Town, which offered a view...

04.06.2022 Another 4 hour bus ride brought us from Riga to Vilnius, a cool and compact city offering the largest medieval old town in...

03.06.2022 After a 4 1/2 hour Lux Express bus ride (offering free movies and coffee) from Tallinn, we arrived in Riga. Our hotel was...

02.06.2022 Arriving in Tallinn after a pleasant 2 hour ferry-ride from Helsinki, we headed immediately to check out the medieval charm of...

25.05.2022 Arriving in Alesund in the morning sun, it is easy to understand why it is often called the most beautiful city in Norway....

31.05.22 A previous business trip to Helsinki in mid-winter many years ago brought back recollections of a dark, sleepy and silent...

28.05.2022 Taking advantage of a short cruise ship stop in Kiel, we made a bee-line to the local train station and took a 75 minute ride...

26.05.2022 The little village of Flåm is situated on the inner end of Aurlandsfjorden, which is part of Sognefjorden, Norways longest...