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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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…