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18/08/2025

Check out my new short on Trakai, Lithuania, a charming island-castle town only a short train ride from Vilnius.
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A short look around the gorgeous medieval castle-town of Trakai, Lithuania, home of the Lithuanian Karaim community, originally from Crimea! Trakai is an eas...

18/08/2025

Hello and ahoj to all! If you haven't already, PLEASE subscribe to my YouTube channel, where my travel content has migrated.
And here's a new short on YouTube from Trakai, Lithuania:

A short look around the gorgeous medieval castle-town of Trakai, Lithuania, home of the Lithuanian Karaim community, originally from Crimea! Trakai is an eas...

19/04/2024

New blog post looking back on the sunny glory days of last summer, when I took a stroll around Vake Park in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Also I'm back in Georgia so expect more updates soon!

Last year in the sweltering heat of the Tbilisi summer, I spent some time wandering around a mostly empty Vake Park, in the north of the city. I discovered a dry, sometimes eerie yet peaceful landscape of hills and dry pine forest; partly maintained, partly wild. The crowning jewel was the Victory s...

27/01/2024

“Some say that the Bosnian way of life is unhealthy: we smoke in public places, drink lots of coffee, eat meat and sweets,” says Lemes, as he stares at the gigantic clouds of smoke spewing from the chimneys of the steelworks, sometimes greyish, sometimes blue and yellowish, sometimes dark charcoal. “But that is our choice.”

In Bosnia, the air is heavy with deadly toxins. Yet a combination of economic worries, a lack of faith in the justice system, and a fatalistic attitude means many people, young and old, don’t seem to care.

23/01/2024

Digital nomads flock to Europe for its rich history and great quality of life, but this region is expected to become a hotspot.

22/12/2023

Built in 1935 during the Italian rule, the Rhodes city aquarium is currently run by the National Centre of Marine Research. It’s located at the very northern tip of Rhodes.

06/11/2023

Did you know that Kutaisi served as the seat of Georgia's parliament for a time, in the 2010s? Check out the country's (now) third-largest city in the link.

Categories Georgia Kutaisi Snaps Kutaisi. A photo essay of Georgia’s rustic second city Post author By Emile Post date September 27, 2023 2 Comments on Kutaisi. A photo essay of Georgia’s rustic second city Kutaisi, Georgia The swift-flowing Rioni, Kutaisi Kutaisi Market Georgian breakfast at a ...

11/10/2023

New post, this time from the wild Caucasus mountains, in northern Georgia... Read, share, and subscribe!

27/09/2023

Hello my friend! I've finally launched my travel blog, CityNotes, focused on Eastern and Central Europe, which you can visit and subscribe to here: https://citynotestravel.com/

I'll share new posts here on the page as well, so please follow!

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