Posts on places of interest in Europe
“I’m the urban spaceman baby, here comes the twist: I don’t exist”. I have been told by a couple of my friends that the fictional character I most resemble is The Doctor – intelligent, geeky, relatively asocial, probably asexual, a mostly solo traveller generally to places off the beaten track …
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 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 …
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 …