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Crossing the EU border Ukriane, Slovakia, Uzhgorod, August 2014 There is airco when the driver feels like it. It is nearly 40 degrees in the bus...

Ukraine, Lviv, Drohobych, December 2017 Contrasts in celebration of a children's holiday The birthday of Saint Nicholas which falls on the 6th December is the biggest...

Germany, Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, March 2019 Not a minute is lost, life is taken seriously here. During the last 45 years, I have been in...

2021 7 Ukraine: Kryvorivnya, Verkhovyna, Rakhiv, Ust Chorna. “I would like to combine two worlds for myself. One world centres around keeping the cows, how...

Serbia February 2018 When emigrants come back to Serbia this question "why did you not leave" is not uncommon amongst the generation that grew up...

Estonia, August 2011 Tallinn Just outside the city centre of Tallin in front of a Sovjet style building we are suddenly surrounded by a herd...

Serbia, Belgrade,  February 2018 A relatively warm Sunday late afternoon in the centre of Belgrade. Studentski Park is during the week a favorite hang out...

The Caribbeans and certainly Dominicans take their Sunday very seriously. Religion is everywhere and in all thinkable varieties. Methodist, baptist, seventh day adventists, catholics,...

Auschwitz January 2016 My head is still full of my visit to Birkenau. What most impressed me was the vastness of the camp and what meager...