Eastern Europe Archives

When I first visited the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana in 2013, I wrote this about the city: “Ljubljana is still relatively undiscovered as a...

Going on a river cruise has long been on my bucket list. There's just something about cruising down a major river, stopping in new...

Last week, I wrote a post about some affordable countries in Europe that you may not have considered traveling to. One of those was...

I've been to all sorts of museums around the world — museums dedicated to history, art, science, war… But no museum has been quite so...

Chances are, Bulgaria isn’t a country that’s high up on your travel list. It was fairly high on mine before this summer simply because...

It was simply too hot in Plovdiv. Forget about walking around — even just standing in the afternoon sun in Bulgaria's second-largest city was...

For my whole life, I've referred to my dad's mother not as “Grandma,” but as “Baba” — a term meaning “grandmother” (or “old woman”)...

The small city of Brasov may not be well-known around the world. In fact, I'm sure many of you have never even heard of...