EUROPE
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A SELF-DECLARED COUNTRY CALLED TRANSNISTRIA
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Transnistria is a difficult location to reach. It’s completely hidden from the world map because it’s not a recognized country. They are a self-proclaimed country, with their own currency and their own flag. I had no idea about Transnistria before I arrived in Moldova, but quickly realized that there was a hidden country nearby Chisinau,…
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WRAPPING UP EUROPE IN MALTA
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Malta was always the place that I’d planned on finishing up my European trip in 2018. Those reasons were as follows, I needed to finish up on an island because I had done most of my European travel by land, by bus or by train, so Malta could only be reached by plane. It was…
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THE EXPENSE OF ICELAND
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Iceland was a country that I had wanted to visit for a long time, but always avoided going there for a number of different reasons, mostly because it was too far away, too cold, and awkward to reach. I finally decided to go about halfway through my European adventure in 2017/2018. I spent some time…
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A 65-HOUR TRIP TO GEORGIA
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Georgia was a country that I was absolutely determined to visit in early 2018, and I didn’t really care what I had to do to make it happen. I almost had a flight booked to Tbilisi in 2017, via Turkey, though some last minute changes took place at that time and I needed to fly…
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TOP THINGS TO DO IN LONDON
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London is one of favourite cities in Europe and rightly so for all the right reasons. The city has always amazed me and the accessibility to the city is always helpful with so many airports in London and the nearby areas, for example, Heathrow Airport, the main airport, Luton, Stansted, Gatwick, not forgetting an efficient…
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GREENLAND- THE LARGEST ISLAND IN THE WORLD
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I was always interested in going to Greenland, mainly because it takes up a large chunk of the world map, the largest island in the world which is an impressive accolade. Getting to Greenland was reasonably easy, but leaving was the main problem! Getting there- 2 options, flights from Reykjavik in Iceland or from Copenhagen…
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NO EASY WAY TO RUSSIA
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NO EASY WAY TO RUSSIA DECEMBER 2017 I had been trying to get to Russia since as far back as early 2015. It had been near enough to the top of my list for years and years. I was close to Kaliningrad in 2015 on a trip to Lithuania, sadly I didn’t have a Russian…