I recently spent a week in Georgia, a country smaller than Scotland, but with a set of traditions and sense of cultural heritage just as strong. I hadn't known what to expect from my visit to this ex-Soviet state, nestled below the Caucasian mountains, and it was with a total lack of prior knowledge about …
Earlier this month, I spent a week in Almaty, a city located in the northern foothills of the Zailiyskiy Alatauin mountain range in Southern Kazakhstan. Here is a visual diary of my time there. Exploring the city Almaty itself is a fairly small city, but there is a lot to see and do, with vast …
{Also featured on my 2nd blog, Russia Revisited} I have been converted. Having visited Moscow on several occasions when I lived in nearby Tver, I never felt particularly drawn to the city. I tried to love it, but each time I went I was let down. Face-control snobbery, expensive food, too big to properly get …
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