Historic Sites
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Context The Museum for Former Political Prisoners in Prishtina is quite unique in Kosovo. Other Eastern European countries, like the Czech Republic, Poland and (what used to be) East Germany, are more than happy to use their authoritarian past to bring in tourists. Souvenir shops sell kitschy ushankas. Museums have entire galleries of communist statues.…
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Simply put – here’s all the unique things I saw in Bulgaria that were cool, but not big enough to warrant their own blog posts! IN LISTICLE FORM!! #1 – A Fighter Jet in the Middle of Nowhere ✈️ Now this is obscure. We stayed at my friend’s Aunt and Uncle’s house in the village…
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Context! Bulgaria has a… complicated relationship with the Communist era. Of course it was an era of great hardship, repression and surveillance, but the Communist government also (broadly) brought security, stable jobs and improvements to public infrastructure. After Bulgaria moved to democracy, the country’s economy collapsed for several years – it’s still one of the…
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Context! Mostly famous these days from a quote by someone else, David Livingstone was a Victorian Christian missionary who made several expeditions into Central Africa, recording the horrors of the slave trade there. He did help to pressure the British Empire into curtailing the Arab slavers in the region, and he was the first European…
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Context! Nottingham Castle’s biggest problem has always been the fact that it’s not actually a castle. This is a big problem for a city where so much of the tourism is based around Robin Hood – people expect to see the famous Nottingham castle, when it doesn’t actually exist. Actually this is only half true.…
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