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Posted on 10 July 2011 by in Azores, Azores, Dubai, Kuwait, Lists, Macedonia, Norway, Oceania, Slovakia, Wales

Katie at Tripbase has put together a fun, new blog challenge to unite bloggers (from all sectors) in a joint endeavour to share lessons learned and create a bank of long but not forgotten blog posts that deserve to see the light of day again. And how to do this? Details are over at Tripbase [...]

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Things to do in Skopje

Posted on 8 April 2011 by in Idle musings, Lists, Macedonia, Magic of Cities, Quirky corners, Show me how, Solo travel, Travel through time

Skopje isn’t what leaps to mind when you think of European cities, is it? It’s probably among the lesser known capitals, along with Chisinau. To me, it was the easiest way to get to Kosovo for a travel writing assignment on the then two-month-old nation. When I checked into my Skopje hotel, the manager asked [...]

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Elvis of the Balkans

Posted on 29 April 2009 by in Idle musings, Macedonia, Quirky corners, Solo travel

Tose Proeski performed Macedonia’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2004 and was named by the BBC as the Elvis of the Balkans.

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The Macedonian naming dispute

Posted on 28 April 2009 by in Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Idle musings, Kosovo, Macedonia, Quirky corners, Serbia, Solo travel

The Macedonian naming dispute: How Greece and Macedonia battle over the name Macedonia. And over the nationality of Alexander the Great.

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11 fave hotels of 2008

Posted on 13 January 2009 by in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Egypt, England, hotels & lodgings, Latvia, Lists, Macedonia, Nova Scotia, Republika Srpska, Transdniestr, Travel with children, UNESCO World Heritage, Wales

We stayed in plenty of hotels in 2008, some good, some not so good, some blah. Here are my fave hotels of 2008 – in no particular order.

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