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There are scars in the pavement where shells landed, filled with red resin. Nobody points them out. You simply notice one, then another, then you walk more slowly for the rest of the afternoon.
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Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina · Europe
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The Croatian Adriatic includes over 1,200 islands, islets and reefs, though fewer than fifty have permanent residents.
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Croatia · Europe
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The road was blocked by a wedding procession. We waited, and then someone knocked on the car window with two glasses of plum brandy and would not take no. We arrived at our guesthouse three hours late and extremely happy.
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Transylvania, Romania · Europe
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The city walls of Dubrovnik run two kilometres around the old town and were never breached by an invading army in their long history.
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Dubrovnik, Croatia · Europe
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More than 58 percent of Slovenia is forested, and brown bears still roam within an hour's drive of the capital.
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Slovenia · Europe
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The wine cellars had road names painted on the tunnel walls: Cabernet Street, Feteasca Avenue. Our guide drove an electric buggy and took corners like a taxi driver.
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Cricova, Moldova · Europe
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On Lake Bled's only island, visitors climb 99 steps to ring a church bell said to grant a wish to anyone who rings it properly.
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Bled, Slovenia · Europe
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The Stari Most in Mostar was destroyed in 1993 and rebuilt stone by stone using original techniques, reopening in 2004.
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Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina · Europe
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The compartment had four bunks and five people, and the fifth was fine with the floor. Tea arrived in glasses with metal holders at six in the morning whether you were awake or not.
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Ukraine · Europe
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The country's name refers to the dark pine forests of Mount Lovcen, which appear almost black from the coast.
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Montenegro · Europe
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Private car ownership was effectively forbidden in Albania until 1991, so the country went from almost no cars to full traffic in a single decade.
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Albania · Europe
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At Christmas the old town smells of almonds and every second doorway leads to a cellar bar. We got lost twice inside two hundred metres because every street looks like the postcard.
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Tallinn, Estonia · Europe
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Lake Ohrid is among the oldest lakes on Earth, holding species found nowhere else after two to three million years of isolation.
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Ohrid, North Macedonia · Europe
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I looked up at a stairwell ceiling in Riga and stayed looking for so long that a resident coming home stopped and looked up too, then said something in Latvian that clearly meant yes, it is good, isn't it.
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Riga, Latvia · Europe
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The word vampire entered western European languages in the 18th century from Serbian folklore reports sent back by Habsburg officials.
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Serbia · Europe
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Bulgaria's Rose Valley supplies a large share of the world's rose oil, and it takes roughly 3,000 kilograms of petals to make one kilogram of oil.
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Kazanlak, Bulgaria · Europe
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Uzupis has a constitution on a wall in forty languages. One article says a dog has the right to be a dog. Another says everyone has the right to be unhappy. Both feel earned.
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Vilnius, Lithuania · Europe
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The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest is the heaviest building on Earth, using around a million cubic metres of marble.
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Bucharest, Romania · Europe
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The Carpathian Mountains hold one of Europe's largest brown bear populations outside Russia, along with lynx and wolves.
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Transylvania, Romania · Europe
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The sun did not set. At half past midnight there was a full football match on the astroturf and a queue for the pitch afterwards. Nobody looked tired.
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Tromso, Norway · Europe
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The Cricova cellars run for more than 100 kilometres of tunnels with street names, and visitors tour them by electric car.
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Cricova, Moldova · Europe
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A working freight train trims a leafy corridor near Klevan into a perfect green tunnel that has become a pilgrimage for couples.
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Klevan, Ukraine · Europe
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Four nights of cloud, and on the fifth the sky opened for eleven minutes. Nobody in the cabin spoke. Afterwards a Danish couple opened a bottle of something and we drank it out of coffee cups.
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Abisko, Sweden · Europe
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This forest on the Polish border is the last large remnant of the woodland that once covered the European plain, home to wild European bison.
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Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Belarus · Europe
External reference (site language): Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park ↗
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The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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