Showing posts with label Balkans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Balkans. Show all posts
Thursday, November 18, 2021

A day of adventure

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‘A day of adventure – At 10 we set forth in the best auto the city could muster to go to the King’s summer palace 75 miles away in the mount...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

To feel like a human being

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‘I should have gone “up there,” into the mountains, to be with them [the Yugoslav partisans]. Definitely. Of course, there too, over time, y...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

The travelling Mr Bargrave

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‘A stately artificiall River runns through the Toune: but at all these places were we forcd to pay Toll, for our Selves & horses: rating...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

We’re going for broke

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 ‘I don’t want to return to the shuttle, but I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in Dayton, so we’re going to go for broke now. We’re ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Herbert goes to war

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Albania’s Greatest Friend: Aubrey Herbert and the Making of Modern Albania is being published today (at least according to Amazon’s website...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Inside the ice hole

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Tomaž Humar, an extraordinary mountaineer from Slovenia, died earlier this month while climbing Langtang Lirung in the Himalayas. Although h...
Monday, September 22, 2008

A bit of Balkan history

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Today is the 100th anniversary of the independent state of Bulgaria (according to the old style Julian calendar) which is as good an excuse ...