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Pristina's Dining Scene: The Good and The Okay
Pristina is home to a decent selection of affordable eateries that dish out anything from tasty pizzas to flaky bureks, and a bit more. While it is not a destination I would recommend travelling for food...
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Pristina: The Wild Child of the Balkans
Pristina, while certainly not being for everyone, is a highly underrated city in my humble opinion. It does not have the Ottoman-era charm of cities like Prizren, no Serbian Orthodox marvels like the patriarchate...
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Safranbolu: A Mix of Saffron and Ottoman Architecture
Many are drawn to Safranbolu since it is a UNESCO heritage site. Turks go there, so do the Japanese, and the Germans, and the French. Tourists of all types and nationalities seem to mingle in this lovely...
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Karadeniz Eregli: A Herculean City by the Black Sea
Hercules, Argonauts, Amazons, so on and so forth… These are just a few of those that, supposedly, appeared around the Black Sea many millennia ago. Whether any one of them actually existed is irrelevant...
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Zonguldak: A Pontic Boomtown
I have always been fascinated by the Black Sea. Despite its relatively humble size, Pontic coasts provide a good amount of interesting tales to those that venture over there. This is certainly helped by...
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My Uzbek Itinerary and Budgetary Notes (December 2023)
This ‘trip report’ of mine, for the lack of a better word, will differ from the previous ones. As this Uzbekistan trip was part of a larger plan that involved two other destinations in southern Kazakhstan,...