Thanks to Ann Wen again for help with the blog title! A lot of this has been repeated the last time I was in Lahore, but the highlight that I came back for would be the Wagah Border between India and Pakistan. Lahore After the Mehndi/Rasm-e-Heena ended at 3am,...
From Tatev we turned and drove up north towards the town Goris, famous for being the home to the Settlement of old Kores, a series of previous inhabited rock caves similar to the cave homes in Cappadocia. And thus began our final leg of our roadtrip into...
See those dotted lines around Tiraspol on the map above? That means something. Sandwiched in between Moldova and Ukraine lies a breakaway/renegade self-proclaimed separatist region officially known as Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic or Transnistria autonomous...
You’re going to laugh at me, but there are some things I’m more than willing to pay for when it comes to travel, especially knowing that: It’s right there. I’m probably never going to come back in a long long time. Guernsey, the other and...
No not that Jersey. I mean Jersey…the larger of the 2 Bailiwicks/Islands that make up The Channel Islands? The self-governing Crown dependency in the Commonwealth? No? It can get pretty confusing, so let me explain: There are 2 main autonomous...
kenopsia n. the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds—an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but...
Photo Credit: Mihaela Kracun After a quick stop at Gracanica yesterday, we got our 10 tickets (for 5 euros each) at the Pristina Bus Station for the 2 hour bus ride to Skopje. We got on a 3pm bus, which reached the Kosovo/Macedonian border at around 4:30pm. A...
