Category: Trans-Europe Express
Blog posts on places of interest in Europe
Two days in Eastern Bosnia
As international borders go, the one between Serbia and Bosnia that I passed through around 2.30am wasn’t anything particularly special. An overhead rigging, with a cabin by the side of the road – the road at that point being a normal, standard, single carriageway with one lane in each direction. …
Novi Sad in a few hours
Novi Sad is Serbia’s second biggest city, around 80km from Belgrade and the train takes about 90 minutes. It stands further upriver on the Danube, towards Hungary and the (boring) Pannonian Plains. Its name means ‘New plantation’ or ‘new fields’ – presumably in relation to it being an expansion of …
Laibach and think of Slovenia
Ahh, Laibach. But I’m not here referring to the Industrial/Experimental music group/culture founded in the late 80s/early 90s who had a habit of producing very dark/bleak versions of classic rock tracks (check out their version of ‘The Final Countdown’ to see what I mean!). Rather, I’m referring to what they …
Brussels – Europe Central
Belgium is a very odd, quirky, ‘off-the-wall’ country. The whole place has the feel of several completely disparate concepts stuck together with supermarket own-brand duct tape; it all fits together but I’m not entirely sure how. This is, after all, a country which holds the record for the longest period …