BlackSeaRoamer
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Ararat, Armenia and Turkey
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Visiting the Ararat region of Armenia early in 2013, I was constantly being made aware of the country’s painful history, and the degree to w...
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Macedonia: Time to tell Greece to stop
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Travelling down by bus from Chişinău to Odessa in July 2022, my first visit to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February, I was...
Monday, 17 December 2012
Venetian and Ottoman Crete
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One of the main themes of my journey through Greece in the autumn of 2012 was visiting former territories of the Venetian Republic: Corfu; P...
Monday, 10 December 2012
Sadness in Salonika
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I was a bit out of spirits when I arrived in Thessaloniki. I had been robbed in Athens the previous day. Foolish of me. Eleni had issued ste...
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Chalkida, a once fine city
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Chalkida has little to commend it to foreign visitors. Within easy day-trip distance from Athens, it is a popular weekend destination for At...
Saturday, 24 November 2012
Preveza and the struggle for Greece
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Preveza, at the mouth of the Amvrakikos Gulf, in southern Epirus, is a pleasant little town. In a maze of narrow streets between the Venetia...
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Ioannina to Tepelena
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When Lord Byron visited Ioannina in 1809, he travelled for three days from Preveza, on the coast, with an entourage of servants, guards, an ...
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