HOLD BACK THE RAIN If you’ve read my previous blog on Pristina, you’ll see I mention the bus journey down to Tirana, capital of the mysterious country of Albania; once the North Korea of Europe (see the House of leaves below). The first thing you need to know is that the bus station isn’t really […]
Monthly Archives: April 2023
MIDNIGHT So it begins with the airport and in keeping with southeastern Europe (I’ll include Georgia in this case) the timings are catastrophically chronic. My plane arrives at about 10pm, the baggage carousel is efficient enough but then we have to put it through X-ray to enter the arrivals hall. There you’ll find there’s a […]
*this piece was written over the winter, while based in Georgia. I hoped to place it in the wider mainstream media but was unable to gain any interest, so I’ll post it here as an oddity. I don’t know what it was like to eat and co-habit a space with Germans fleeing the Third Reich […]
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