Travel after the pandemic #9: By road in Bulgaria

Marvels come both natural and man-made

One of the Balkans' larger countries, Bulgaria makes an excellent place for road tripping. Enough of its wildness (literal and figurative) remains to guarantee a glimpse into the traditional way of life. A journey across the country includes a town famous for its mineral ...

Travel after the pandemic #8: By road in Slovakia

National treasures along the highways and byways

Today’s trip involves a moderate drive from Budapest to Slovakia’s High Tatras mountains, taking in World Heritage sites, scenic roads, old mining towns, extra special wooden villages, a castle, lake and skiing centre along the way.

Croatia opens borders to ‘green’ EU countries

Croatia from Thursday is allowing the unimpeded entry of citizens of European Union countries with low coronavirus incidence rates according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the official koronavirus.hr website has said.

Budapest Airport passenger numbers jump in May

Passenger numbers at Budapest's Liszt Ferenc International reached 88,800 in May, almost four times the number registered a year earlier, when the country was in pandemic lockdown, operator Budapest Airport said on Tuesday.

Travel after the pandemic #7: Grossglockner High Alpine Road, Austria

Time to take the high road

On four wheels, two wheels or two legs, Austria’s Grossglockner High Alpine Road is considered one of the most beautiful panorama roads in the world, with 36 hairpin bends along its 48 kilometres, 30 peaks topping 3000 metres, glacial snowfields in mid-summer and the ...

Still standing out from the crowd with nowhere yet to go

Lost and found retro relic in Kőbánya Kispest

Just when I thought I had seen them all, another surreal oddity comes my way. After last year’s unexpected sighting of a statuette of a hostile gun-waving revolutionary in Újpest, clearly from early communist times, I wasn’t anticipating another such find to stop me ...