International
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I wrote 90% of this while I was in Kosovo, but procrastinated in actually posting it. I’ve finished it up months after that trip finished – enjoy! As a Brit, I have 99 problems but a bear ain’t one. Britain has been completely and utterly bear-less since the Middle Ages – my ancestors made sure…
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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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This was originally going to be a small part of my Bulgaria roundup post, but the story got long enough that I’ve turned it into a separate blog entry. I hope you enjoy! Context! Unless you’re a complete sociopath you probably like dinosaurs – there’s something about skeletons of massive, long extinct animals that brings…
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Context! Apologies for not posting in the last few days! I’ve been gathering my thoughts on what I’ve seen and my overall thoughts on Bulgaria but I’m excited to do some more writing. I’ve still got 2-3 more posts planned, don’t worry! It was the 1990s, Communism had just fallen, and Bulgaria had a problem.…
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Context! Okay, first a confession – I am definitely not a military enthusiast. I’ve never read a Tom Clancy novel. I can’t identify a Panzer tank based on one blurry photograph. I’ve certainly never leaked classified data because a game got minor details about an army tank wrong (this actually happened). However, I do have…
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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! At last! Eight months after I started this blog, and after covering places in London, Scotland and the East Midlands, I’m finally able to talk about something international. I’m currently writing this in the lovely country of Bulgaria, where I’ll be staying with a good friend of mine for a few days 🇧🇬 We…
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