Posts from year 2014
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Into Mostar
Mostar hits me like a leftover war dream. Sun-bleached stones, bullet-pocked facades and the uneasy silence of a place still trying to remember how to forget.
The walls of Dubrovnik
There’s something about old stones. The ones that have soaked up blood, sweat, saltwater and centuries of bad decisions. The walls of Dubrovnik are made of those kinds of stones.
Good morning Montenegro
Most people can’t even find Montenegro on a map. It’s wedged between Croatia’s Dalmatian swagger and Albania’s defiant edges, trying to find an identity of its own.
Historic locations in Gothenburg
Gothenburg isn’t just pretty facades and canals. It’s a city built on commerce, ambition and ruin, and if you know where to look, you’ll feel the ghosts of those exploits. Here are the places in Gothenburg you should explore, if you want to taste the salt-and-stone history.
The cobblestones of Maidan Nezalezhnosti
I crossed the dark cobbles of Maidan Nezalezhnosti a year ago, beneath a low gray sky. The square in Kiev, a traditional place for political protests, was quiet, but the stones beneath my feet still carried the ring of the past. The dormant sounds of the 2004 Orange Revolution.