A month into a hitchhiking journey across Europe, an unwanted advance and a screwdriver incident on the road from Sarajevo to Mostar, Bosnia, prove that every traveller’s luck eventually runs …
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When Things Fall Apart
Deported, Stranded, Assaulted: Seeking Kindness in the Balkans
by Tina Lamby Tina LamAfter sneaking into Greece without a passport stamp earns her deportation, a young backpacker’s desperate drive across the Balkans leads to a broken-down car and a terrifying ordeal, where she …
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A traveler raised in Canada returns to her hometown of Skopje, Macedonia, to explore how the city has changed in the last six decades, combining tourism with personal pilgrimage, visiting …
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A former sales representative takes to the road on a long walk through the Balkans in an attempt to rediscover a sense of vulnerability and inherent goodness. This story was …