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17.12.2022.

Balkan Trails

How independent travellers discovered the former Yugoslavia

17.12.2022.

Bookpackers

Do travel books really deserve a place in your luggage?

10.07.2022.

Last Train to Kupari

Czechoslovakia's Shangri-la on the shores of the Adriatic.

06.07.2021.

Opatija Noir

It wouldn’t be a seaside town if it didn’t have a dark side

24.06.2019.

Yugoslavia in the Year 2000

Throughout 1960, Globus magazine ran a series of articles about what they thought the country would look like in the year 2000. Casting their eyes over existing plans for concrete suburbs and high-rise cities, Globus’s writers were essentially saying that, thanks to socialism, the future was already here.

12.09.2018.

Journey to Russia

Miroslav Krleža’s masterpiece of mid-Twenties reportage is a compelling hybrid of travelogue, personal memoir and political essay

10.09.2018.

The Elusive Emperor

Few people are so central to the history of Split as Roman Emperor Diocletian. And yet it’s surprising how little we know about the man.

14.12.2016.

Sachertorte, Sacher-Masoch

So what is it that makes Vienna the capital of sex?

09.5.2016.

Rijeka Rock City

It was the port city of Rijeka that led the way when it came to Croatia’s relationship with the electric guitar, and it is Rijeka that preserves most in terms of rock and roll heritage today.

12.4.2016.

Awesome Orson

So why is there a statue of Orson Welles in the Croatian City of Split?

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