Here Comes The Rain Again

Everyone loves Dubrovnik. Its a compact walled city filled with bars, restaurants and trinket shops. I was here in 2007 when it was more of a backpacker destination. Quirky bars, cheap food and old ladies crowding bus stops looking for renters of their extra rooms. The backpackers have moved on to cheaper and quirkier locals. Now its clogged with day…

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Bucharest

I have been to Bucarest before. It was a quick stop over in January of 2020. I had taken the all night bus from Bulgaria, arrived before sunrise walked around with my luggage til my room was ready. Went back out for dinner then back to the room early because I was exhausted. When I was younger, I would take…

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Waiting On the Border

Once the air raid sirens went quiet, it was just another normal travel day. Time to get out of Ukraine and move on down the highway. I was heading to Bucharest, Romania. It’s the next biggest city in the area. There are some more Black Sea Beach resort towns in approximately the same direction but definitely no reason to be…

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Moldova

Based on the video of Chișinău that I was using as my reference point, I had pretty low expectations. And coming off of a 21 hour train ride, I was starting a bit grumpy to boot. Admittedly I was starting low but I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised. Not super pleasantly but regularly pleasantly surprised and that…

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Ukraine

I am 30 minutes into a 20 hour train ride to a city that I can passably pronounce. At least phonetically. Chișinău. The capitol of Moldova. A place I know nothing about other than what I gleaned from this YouTube video last year. The video doesn’t put it in the best of light but it is number 3 on the…

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Poland

It’s Sunday morning here and I have a few hours on a train that I think is going to a place I can’t pronounce somewhere in Poland. The conductor will let me know if I screwed up soon enough. Why am I in Poland in the middle of winter? Well obviously, it’s cheap and tourist free. Usually I just pick…

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