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Thursday, 23 February 2012



Fresh Fish, Olives, and the Albanian Bay of Ksamil: All to Yourself



BalkanTravellers.com   

Albania remains a rough diamond, undiscovered territory, the most challenging destination in Europe. Bob Berwyn of the Summit County Citizens Voice selects pictures from his travel files to compose this simple, and yet charming photo story, in which places and people stand out full of character. The exploration of Albanian islands in the Ionian sea not far from Saranda seem to be a solitary affair even in high season.
 

Epicure


Serbia
Top 10 Restaurants of Central and Eastern Europe

5 June 2011| The top 10 restaurants of Central and Eastern Europe were announced tonight at a Dining Guide Food Show in Budapest. The list, which includes most of the Balkans, is considered to be a pre-selection. The announcement of a single winner will follow at the end of the year. Full Story



Curiosity Chest


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Serbia: Tito's Mausoleum in Belgrade

Whatever your opinion on communism, many people across Eastern Europe and the wider world have a romanticised view of the former Yugoslavia’s grand leader Josip Broz Tito. Full Story



Useful Reads


Serbia
The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History (2010) | By Jason Vuic

No other car, save perhaps the equally admired Skoda, has inspired as many jokes as the Yugo, the product of “cutting edge” technology from the former Yugoslavia which was ranked by US auto journalists as only the eighth most deadly car on the road. Full Story




Music


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EXIT Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia: Overnight Exile in the Fortress

Located roughly in the middle between Bulgaria's Black Sea and Croatia’s Adriatic coasts, which are both shaken by high-energy rock parties each July, Novi Sad hosts one of the most significant summer festivals on the Balkans – EXIT. As fans from all parts of the region start to gather in the town for for this year’s event, scheduled to take place between July 10 and 13, Mila Popova recounts about the time she spent at the festival last summer.

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