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Europe in October '12
... deck looking up at the wonderful Eiger. A local family walk their cows down the road every evening every so often someone walks or drives past and stops for a chat - very friendly and relaxing! We spent the next day cruising the lake near Interlaken which was heavenly - I’m running out of adjectives to describe things! More G&T that evening and a good sleep before the next big hike - got the little train up to Kleine Scheidegg (2,061 ...
On to Croatia
Thursday morning and we just pulled into Vukovar in Croatia. This morning we have a talk on how it was to live under Communism by the Program Director who lived 31 years in that state. We also have a Croatian Tambura Band performing traditional string instruments. On the tour this afternoon we visit Vukovar and Osijek. Nearly all of Vukovar was leveled in the 90's in an 87 day siege during the Serbia Croatian ...
Welcome to Croatia
It was already midnight in the common room of the good vibes hostel in Budapest, when I found out that there wasn't a train that would take less than 10 hours to get to Maribor, and none that can get from there to Ljubljana faster than in 7 hours. Actually, in order to get to Slovenia from Budapest, the only way was changing 4 times to different trains. Considering I was running out of days in my interrail flexi-pass, and so it wouldn't make much sense to spend the next 3 days inside ...
We Made It To Poland!
Made it in to Warsaw on time and were met by Kazik Barczuk at the airport. He drove us to the camp at Zakosciele. We saw Dorota, and then several familiar faces at the PROeM Christian Center. Michael was there playing basketball with teams from Poland, Belarus, ...
Jassenovac
... Jivkov (trente cinq ans au pouvoir, un record de longévité!), les Bulgares sortent lentement d'une longue nuit totalitaire, rêvant de démocratie et de liberté. Des idées neuves en Bulgarie, comme le tourisme individuel qui n'en est encore qu'à ses balbutiements... ».
Une dizaine d'année plus tard, je ne suis pas sur que les choses aient évolué positivement. Le couple de voisins qui connaissent Sophia, nous ont confirmé que ...